successor religion birth_place president party office birth_date term_start residence image article_title term_end name alma_mater
daniel j. bryant roman catholic saigon , vietnam george w. bush republican united legal policy states assistant attorney general for the office of 22 february 1968 may 31 , 2001 washington , d.c. viet dinh by gage skidmore.jpg viet d. dinh
 may 31 , 2003 viet d. dinh harvard j.d. -rrb- university -lrb- a.b. -rrb- harvard law school -lrb-
viet d. dinh

viet d. dinh -lrb- ; born february 22 , 1968 -rrb- is a lawyer and a conservative legal scholar who served as an assistant attorney general of the united states from 2001 to 2003 , under the presidency of george w. bush .
born in saigon , in the former south vietnam , he was the chief architect of the usa patriot act and is a former member of the board of directors of news corporation .
