Claim: Yoo Choon, born on July 10, 1967 in Seoul, South Korea, is a law professor and former official in the United States Department of Justice; known for his legal views on warrantless searches, domestic surveillance and Torture Memos.
Evidence: John Choon Yoo (Korean: 유준; born July 10, 1967) is a Korean-born American legal scholar and former government official best known for authoring the Torture Memos, which provided a legal rationale for the torture of detainees during the War on Terror. Yoo Choon
(1967-07-10) July 10, 1967 (age 53)
Seoul, South Korea Yoo is the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Yoo became known in the early-2000s for his legal opinions concerning executive power, warrantless wiretapping, and the Geneva Conventions while serving in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) of the Department of Justice, during the George W. Bush administration. Yoo provided a legal opinion backing the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program. NSA warrantless surveillance (also commonly referred to as "warrantless-wiretapping" or "-wiretaps") refers to the surveillance of persons within the United States, including United States citizens, during the collection of notionally foreign intelligence by the National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program. Reports at the time indicate that an "apparently accidental" "glitch" resulted in the interception of communications that were between two U.S. parties.