Who is Yoo?

[BurtWorm]

Just a die-hard, well-connected winger who knew that in order to rise in the right-wing hierarchy, you keep telling them what they want to hear.


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/politics/23yoo.html?ei=5094&en=5042388cf1a7b569&hp=&ex=1135400400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print


That Washington tale began about a decade before Mr. Yoo joined the administration in July 2001, when he finished at Yale Law School and won a clerkship with Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a keen spotter of young legal talent and a patriarch of the network of conservative lawyers who have occupied key positions throughout the Bush administration.

By then, Mr. Yoo already thought of himself as solidly conservative. He had grown up with anticommunist parents who left their native South Korea for Philadelphia shortly after Mr. Yoo was born in 1967, and had honed his political views while an undergraduate at Harvard.

From the chambers of Judge Silberman, Mr. Yoo moved on to a clerkship with Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court, stopping briefly at Berkeley. Justice Thomas helped place him with Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, as general counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Along the way, Mr. Yoo passed up a chance to work in the Washington office of the law firm Jones Day, where he caught the eye of a senior partner, Timothy E. Flanigan. After five years that Mr. Yoo spent at Berkeley, writing on legal aspects of foreign affairs, war powers and presidential authority, the two men met up again when Mr. Yoo joined the Bush campaign's legal team, where Mr. Flanigan was a key lieutenant.

[Ezlivin]

1. No, Yoo is on second, Who is on first base

Apologies to Abbott and Costello.

[AlCzervik]

2. I can't stnad him, everytime i see him Washing Journal want to smack him

[PDittie]

3. Fuck Yoo

He must be forced to resign.

[BurtWorm]

4. Yoo is gone.

Yoo is at Berkeley, isn't Yoo?

[UTUSN]

5. He Was the "Brains" Behind Beto GONZALES

The one who wrote the memos Beto signed and read-off of. The hand in the sockpuppet.

[BurtWorm]

6. Ashcroft didn't trust him.

That's how much of a slimeball he is.

[UTUSN]

9. Well, ASHCROFT Probably Had Aryan Reasons

He would have loved having an Aryan specimen churning out the SAME memos YOO did.

[BrainRants]

7. I is BrainRants. Who is yoo?

(Sorry, couldn't resist) :)

[BurtWorm]

8. I know BrainRants. BrainRants is a good friend of mine.

Yoo is no BrainRants.