John Yoo
- January 10, 2024
- Author
Quick Facts
| Full Name | John Yoo |
| Occupation | Author |
| Date Of Birth | Jul 10, 1967(1967-07-10) |
| Age | 57 |
| Birthplace | Seoul |
| Country | South Korea |
| Horoscope | Cancer |
John Yoo Biography
| Name | John Yoo |
| Birthday | Jul 10 |
| Birth Year | 1967 |
| Place Of Birth | Seoul |
| Birth Country | South Korea |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Spouse | Elsa Arnett |
John Yoo is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on July 10, 1967 in Seoul, South Korea.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Yoo immigrated to the United States with his family when he was a young child and grew up in Philadelphia. He attended high school at Episcopal Academy and graduated in 1985.
After high school, Yoo went to Harvard University, where he majored in American history and was a resident of Winthrop House. He graduated from Harvard in 1989 with an A.B. summa cum laude. He then studied law at the Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal. He graduated from Yale with a Juris Doctor degree in 1992. Yoo was admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania in 1993.
John Yoo Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Author |
| House | Living in own house. |
John Yoo is one of the richest Author from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Yoo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
John Choon Yoo (Korean: 유준 ; born July 10, 1967) is a Korean-American attorney and former government official best known for authoring the so-called Torture Memos, which provided a legal rationale for the torture of detainees during the War on Terror.
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Yoo has been principally associated with his work from 2001 to 2003 in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) under Attorney General John Ashcroft during the George W. Bush Administration. Yoo’s expansive view of presidential power led to a close relationship with Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. He played an important role in developing a legal justification for the Bush administration’s policy in the war on terrorism, arguing that prisoner of war status under the Geneva Conventions does not apply to “enemy combatants” captured during the war in Afghanistan and held at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp.
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Jonas Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. John Yoo celebrates birthday on July 10 of every year.
After he left the Department of Justice, it was revealed that Yoo had written legal opinions, including co-writing the Torture Memo of August 1, 2002, that narrowly defined torture and American habeas corpus obligations. They authorized what were called enhanced interrogation techniques and were issued to the CIA. In addition, at the time the OLC issued a new definition of torture. Most actions that fall under the international definition did not fall within this new definition advocated by the U.S.