Patriot Act author wilts during speech

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    "Viet Dinh, the Bush-appointed former assistant attorney general and main author of the USA Patriot Act, began his Jan. 11 speech at UC Irvine's Beckman Center Auditorium by admitting, 'I am a complete intellectual fraud.' It was supposed to be a joke... One audience member who identified himself as Vietnamese-American asked Dinh whether he thought the war in Iraq was becoming another Vietnam. 'We don't have time to talk about Vietnam,' Dinh answered. 'We'd be here all night.' By then, he was stuttering mercilessly, often raising his voice and emitting a high-pitched laugh whenever he disagreed with a question. But when one woman drew the biggest applause of the evening by asking him why the Bush administration wasn't trying harder to understand why so many people throughout the world hate America, Dinh was momentarily speechless. 'I don't have anything intelligent to add to that,' he finally said."

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