On the video he discusses when it is appropriate to fire US Attorneys. The chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act. Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center A member of the District of Columbia and Supreme Court bars. One of a group of prominent US security officials hired by ChoicePoint to advise the company on developing its government homeland security contracts. Serving on the boards of the News Corporation, Libertys Promise, the American Judicature Society, the Transition Committee for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools, and the ABA Section on Administrative Law. He is on the board of directors of News Corporation with Perkins and Rupert Murdoch. In September 2006 Dinh received publicity for representing Tom Perkins, a former Hewlett-Packard director involved in the company's pretexting scandal. The emails between Perkins and Larry Sonsini, a corporate lawyer involved with Board of Directors decisions for many Corporations were ventually forwarded to reporters and became public. (PERSONAL LIFE) His family was separated in 1975 when his father, Phong Dinh, was imprisoned in a re-education camp after the fall of Saigon. His father was being held as a political prisoner in the family's war-ravaged homeland. He escaped in 1978, and remained a fugitive in Vietnam, when his mother, Nga Thu Nguyễn, and his ...