Name: John Choon Yoo

Born: 1967, in Seoul, South Korea

Profession: Attorney, law professor

GW Bush Administration Position:

• Deputy assistant attorney general assigned to the powerful Office of Legal Counsel

War crime charge(s):

• Complicity in the commission of a war crime – torture, ill-treatment of detainees.
• Drafted legal memos saying President Bush could waive the Geneva Conventions regarding the invasion of Afghanistan by labeling it a failed state and that prisoners seized during that operation would not be covered by the Geneva Convention protections.
• Issued other legal memos arguing that the commander in chief was justified in ordering torture during wartime.

Primary Association:

• Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley School of Law at Boalt Hall
  
• Fletcher Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law
  Chapman University School of Law
  One University Drive
  Orange, CA 92866
  Ph: 714-997-6815

• Visiting scholar, American Enterprise Institute, 1150 Seventeenth St. NW, Washington, DC 20036
  
• Member, Federalist Society, 1015 Eighteenth St. NW, Suite 425, Washington, DC 20036

More Information:

• 12-8-08 Memorandum of Recommendation to Berkeley City Council re John Yoo and Torture
• John Yoo Returning to Berkeley
• Yoo in Heated Debate at Chapman
• Bush Attorneys Who Wrote Terror Memo Face Backlash
• Judge Allows Civil Lawsuit
• 7-01-09 10 Most Wanted War Criminals
• 7-10-09 Yoo Authorized Warrentless Wiretaps
• 7-14-09 Court Allows Padilla Suit Against Yoo to Proceed
• 8-10-09 The torture memos and Berkeley's law-school schedule
• 8-24-09 Torture and Academic Freedom
• 9-09 John Yoo informational flier (PDF)
• 9-29-09 Profile: Jay S. Bybee
• 9-29-09 Berkeley agrees to UN rights treaties
• 10-30-09 Berkeley Law students petition for investigation of John Yoo
• 11-11-09 Bush torture ‘architect’ sits on court that will rule on another torture ‘architect’
• 12-09-09 Annotated Agression: Being Jay Bybee
• 12-29-09 Power of Attorney
• 1-29-10 Justice Dept. Clears Yoo, Bybee of Misconduct
• 3-1-10 Yoo Cartoon
• 3-4-10 BAAT Press Release: Berkeley Law Students and Bay Area Lawyers Demand Full-Scale Investigation of Professor Yoo
• 3-28-10 Hoos Against Yoo - lots of great info, questions to be raised in any public event with Yoo, videos, etc.
• 4-1-10 Who is John Yoo? Human Rights Info 101

Scheduled Events:

• 4/22/10 Westlake Village CA
• 5/14/10 Berkeley Graduation Call for Accountability

Note:

“Congress doesn’t have the power to tie the President’s hands in regard to torture as an interrogation technique....It’s the core of the Commander-in-Chief function. They can’t prevent the President from ordering torture.”