Terrorism | Antiterrorism Legislation Will Make America Safer

To civil liberties alarmists, Viet Dinh is a traitor. To me, he is an American hero.

Dinh, 35, is widely known—and reviled—as the primary architect of the Patriot Act. Until May [2003], he was an assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy in John Ashcroft’s Justice Department. (He stepped down to return to his law school post at Georgetown University.)

Since the September 11 [2001] terrorist attacks, Dinh told The Christian Science Monitor, “our nation’s ability to defend itself against terror has been not only my vocation but my...

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