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John Yoo
John Choon Yoo
(born July 10, 1967) is a Korean-American
attorney
, law professor, and author. He served as a political appointee, the Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General in the
Office of Legal Counsel
, Department of Justice (OLC), during the
George W. Bush administration
. He is best known for his opinions concerning the
Geneva Conventions
that legitimized the
War on Terror
by the United States. He also authored the so-called
Torture Memos
, which concerned the use of what the
Central Intelligence Agency
called
enhanced interrogation techniques
including
waterboarding
.
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