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John C. Yoo

Judge Clarence Thomas’s former assistant, John C. Yoo is a professor of law at Berkeley and member of the Council on Foreign Relations, of the Federalist Society, and a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute.
John C. Yoo was John Ashcroft’s adviser in the Department of Justice (2001-2003) and he is co-editor of the memorandum requesting that the Geneva Convention was not applied to the prisoners captured during the Afghanistan war.

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“A united Iraq: What’s the point?”
by John C. Yoo
6 September 2005
Iraqi leaders have a tentative constitution but they have not answered a fundamental question: Does Iraq really exist as a nation? The Kurds and Shiites negotiate between them leaving the Arab Sunnis aside which increases divisions. Washington wants to build a new Iraq but it spends blood and (...)
“Where’s the Old Bolton When We Need Him?”
by Eric Posner, John C. Yoo
3 May 2005
John Bolton once declared that the removal of the ten top floors of the UN headquarters would not make a big difference. But during the hearings of this week in the Senate, he promised to «establish closer ties between the United States and the UN» as well as to «restore confidence» between (...)

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