John Yoo
John Choon Yoo (; born July 10, 1967) is a South Korean-born American legal scholar and former government official who serves as the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Yoo became known for his legal opinions concerning executive power, warrantless wiretapping, and the Geneva Conventions while serving in the George W. Bush administration, during which he was the author of the controversial "Torture Memos" in the War on Terror.As the deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) of the Department of Justice, Yoo wrote the Torture Memos to determine the legal limits for the torture of detainees following the September 11 attacks. The legal guidance on interrogation authored by Yoo and his successors in the OLC were rescinded by President Barack Obama in 2009. Some individuals and groups called for the investigation and prosecution of Yoo under various anti-torture and anti-war crimes statutes.
A report by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility stated that Yoo's justification of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation methods" constituted "intentional professional misconduct" and recommended that Yoo be referred to his state bar association for possible disciplinary proceedings. Senior Justice Department lawyer David Margolis overruled the report in 2010, saying that Yoo and Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee—who authorized the memos—had exercised "poor judgment" but that the department lacked a clear standard to conclude misconduct. Provided by Wikipedia
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9by Daniel A. O’Connell, Hadi Seikaly, Andre Isaac, Justin Pyne, Robert D. Hart, David Goldstein, John Yoo, Canadian Association of Head and Neck Surgical OncologyGet full text
Published 2020-07-01
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10by Kara M. Ruicci, Paul Plantinga, Nicole Pinto, Mohammed I. Khan, William Stecho, Sandeep S. Dhaliwal, John Yoo, Kevin Fung, Danielle MacNeil, Joe S. Mymryk, John W. Barrett, Christopher J. Howlett, Anthony C. NicholsGet full text
Published 2019-10-01
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11by Kara M. Ruicci, Paul Plantinga, Nicole Pinto, Mohammed I. Khan, William Stecho, Sandeep S. Dhaliwal, John Yoo, Kevin Fung, Danielle MacNeil, Joe S. Mymryk, John W. Barrett, Christopher J. Howlett, Anthony C. NicholsGet full text
Published 2020-01-01
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12by Krupal B. Patel, Nicholas Cormier, James Fowler, Allison Partridge, Julie Theurer, Morgan Black, Nicole Pinto, John Yoo, Kevin Fung, Danielle MacNeil, William Stecho, Christopher Howlett, Muriel Brackstone, John W. Barrett, Anthony NicholsGet full text
Published 2021-01-01
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13by Kara M. Ruicci, Jalna Meens, Paul Plantinga, William Stecho, Nicole Pinto, John Yoo, Kevin Fung, Danielle MacNeil, Joe S. Mymryk, John W. Barrett, Christopher J. Howlett, Paul C. Boutros, Laurie Ailles, Anthony C. NicholsGet full text
Published 2020-10-01
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14by Hedyeh Ziai, Andrew Warner, Neil Mundi, Krupal Patel, Eun Jae Chung, Christopher J. Howlett, Paul Plantinga, John Yoo, S. Danielle MacNeil, Kevin Fung, Joe S. Mymryk, John W. Barrett, David A. Palma, Anthony C. NicholsGet full text
Published 2021-01-01
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15by Nicole Pinto, Stephenie D Prokopec, Frederick Vizeacoumar, Karlee Searle, Matthew Lowerison, Kara M Ruicci, John Yoo, Kevin Fung, Danielle MacNeil, Jim C Lacefield, Hon S Leong, Joe S Mymryk, John W Barrett, Alessandro Datti, Paul C Boutros, Anthony C NicholsGet full text
Published 2018-01-01
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16by Nicole Pinto, Stephenie D Prokopec, Farhad Ghasemi, Jalna Meens, Kara M Ruicci, Imran M Khan, Neil Mundi, Krupal Patel, Myung W Han, John Yoo, Kevin Fung, Danielle MacNeil, Joe S Mymryk, Alessandro Datti, John W Barrett, Paul C Boutros, Laurie Ailles, Anthony C NicholsGet full text
Published 2020-01-01
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17by Anthony C. Nichols, Michelle Chan-Seng-Yue, John Yoo, Sumit K. Agrawal, Maud H. W. Starmans, Daryl Waggott, Nicholas J. Harding, Samuel A. Dowthwaite, David A. Palma, Kevin Fung, Bret Wehrli, S. Danielle MacNeil, Philippe Lambin, Eric Winquist, James Koropatnick, Joe S. Mymryk, Paul C. Boutros, John W. BarrettGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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18by Eric J. Di Gravio, Pencilla Lang, Hugh Andrew Jinwook Kim, Tricia Chinnery, Neil Mundi, S. Danielle MacNeil, Adrian Mendez, John Yoo, Kevin Fung, Joe S. Mymryk, John W. Barrett, Nancy Read, Varagur Venkatesan, Sara Kuruvilla, Lucas C. Mendez, Eric Winquist, Sylvia Mitchell, Sarah A. Mattonen, Anthony C. Nichols, David A. PalmaGet full text
Published 2020-11-01
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19by Alana Sorgini, Hugh Andrew Jinwook Kim, Peter Y. F. Zeng, Mushfiq Hassan Shaikh, Neil Mundi, Farhad Ghasemi, Eric Di Gravio, Halema Khan, Danielle MacNeil, Mohammed Imran Khan, Adrian Mendez, John Yoo, Kevin Fung, Pencilla Lang, David A. Palma, Joe S. Mymryk, John W. Barrett, Krupal B. Patel, Paul C. Boutros, Anthony C. NicholsGet full text
Published 2021-12-01
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20by Anthony C. Nichols, Pencilla Lang, Eitan Prisman, Eric Berthelet, Eric Tran, Sarah Hamilton, Jonn Wu, Kevin Fung, John R. de Almeida, Andrew Bayley, David P. Goldstein, Antoine Eskander, Zain Husain, Houda Bahig, Apostolos Christopoulous, Michael Hier, Khalil Sultanem, Keith Richardson, Alex Mlynarek, Suren Krishnan, Hien Le, John Yoo, S. Danielle MacNeil, Adrian Mendez, Eric Winquist, Nancy Read, Varagur Venkatesan, Sara Kuruvilla, Andrew Warner, Sylvia Mitchell, Martin Corsten, Murali Rajaraman, Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki, Libni Eapen, Michael Odell, Shamir Chandarana, Robyn Banerjee, Joseph Dort, T. Wayne Matthews, Robert Hart, Paul Kerr, Samuel Dowthwaite, Michael Gupta, Han Zhang, Jim Wright, Christina Parker, Bret Wehrli, Keith Kwan, Julie Theurer, David A. PalmaGet full text
Published 2020-02-01
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