https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 Opednews.com Progressive, Liberal United States and International News, Opinion, Op-Eds and Politics en-us Copyright 2026 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:06:57 -0400 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:06:57 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/rssbanner.png https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 152 149 https://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Biological-Warfare-Ko-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-Biological-Warfare-201114-871.html Sat, 14 Nov 2020 18:48:41 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Biological-Warfare-Ko-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-Biological-Warfare-201114-871.html Jeffrey Kaye The question whether the United States used biological weapons during the Korean War remains a fierce controversy nearly 70 years after the North Korea and China made the initial allegations of such attacks.----An important new book by author Nicolson Baker, published in July by Penguin Books, Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act, makes the case --- https://www.opednews.com/articles/NYT-Article-on-Psychiatric-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-Detainees_Detention_Guantanamo-Bay_Guantanamo-Bay-Detention-Camp-161115-650.html Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:37:24 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/NYT-Article-on-Psychiatric-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-Detainees_Detention_Guantanamo-Bay_Guantanamo-Bay-Detention-Camp-161115-650.html Jeffrey Kaye This article critiques a recent New York Times examination of psychiatric practice inside the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, finding some important misstatements, misrepresentations, and a failure to document glaring evidence of detainee abuse, particularly in the case of detainee "suicides". https://www.opednews.com/articles/Newly-Revealed-Portions-of-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-CIA_Counterintelligence_Detention_Exploitation-140509-518.html Fri, 09 May 2014 12:21:57 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Newly-Revealed-Portions-of-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-CIA_Counterintelligence_Detention_Exploitation-140509-518.html Jeffrey Kaye It has been over 16 years since the CIA's 1963 torture manual, known as KUBARK, was declassified. Now, new portions of that manual have been released, revealing new information on CIA methods (including falsification of taped interrogations), rendition, and Cold War torture of "defectors." https://www.opednews.com/articles/CIA-Document-Suggests-U-S-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-Brainwashing_CIA_Chemical-Weapons_History-131212-661.html Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:26:11 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/CIA-Document-Suggests-U-S-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-Brainwashing_CIA_Chemical-Weapons_History-131212-661.html Jeffrey Kaye According to a declassified CIA document, the U.S. government lied publicly about pushing for a United Nations investigation into Soviet, Chinese and North Korean charges of U.S. use of biological weapons during the Korean War. The reason the U.S. didn't want any investigation was because an "actual investigation" would reveal military operations, including "8th Army preparations or operations (e.g. chemical warfare)." https://www.opednews.com/articles/New-Document-Shows-FBI-Int-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-120805-263.html Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:50:44 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/New-Document-Shows-FBI-Int-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-120805-263.html Jeffrey Kaye A 2010 FBI interrogation "primer", apparently a fifth version of earlier FBI manuals dealing with "Cross-cultural, Rapport-based" "intelligence-oriented interrogations in overseas environments," repeatedly draws upon advice from two CIA torture manuals, the 1963 KUBARK Counter-intelligence Manual and the 1983 Human Exploitation Resource Manual. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Despite-New-Denials-by-Rum-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-110902-926.html Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:01:43 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Despite-New-Denials-by-Rum-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-110902-926.html Jeffrey Kaye The mainstream narrative talks about waterboarding as something only the CIA did, and even then, to "only" three prisoners. Yet, though not widely reported and scattered among various articles and reports on detainee treatment by the Department of Defense, including first-person accounts, there are a many instances of forced water choking or drowning, both at Guantanamo and other US military sites. https://www.opednews.com/articles/NRC-on-Experiments-on-War-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-110214-713.html Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:44:02 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/NRC-on-Experiments-on-War-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-110214-713.html Jeffrey Kaye A National Research Council conference in 2008 discussed the possibility that experiments could be conducted on "war on terror" prisoners because Bush took away their Geneva protections. Evidence of changes in protections for prisoners argues this possibility may have become a reality, constituting a war crime. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Broken-Faith-How-a-Navy-P-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-090902-630.html Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:46:36 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Broken-Faith-How-a-Navy-P-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-090902-630.html Jeffrey Kaye Los Angeles attorney Robert A. Bailey, formerly a military JAG officer, and one of the lawyers in the Daniel King case, spoke to me a few weeks ago in some detail about the controversial King interrogation. Bailey described to me how the abusive interrogation King endured, and the betrayal of the military psychologist he thought would help him, led King to a suicidal breakdown. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Expose-Former-Top-Navy-Ps-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-090725-755.html Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:56:54 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Expose-Former-Top-Navy-Ps-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-090725-755.html Jeffrey Kaye A well-known spokesman for ethical interrogations by psychologists in national security settings, Dr. Michael Gelles, then Chief Forensic Psychologist for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, was himself accused in 2001 of unethical behavior for his part in the interrogation of a suspect in an espionage case. His work on the Daniel King case was referred for ethical violations to the APA, who refused to investigate. https://www.opednews.com/articles/SERE-Psychologists-Still-U-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-090723-585.html Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:40:44 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/SERE-Psychologists-Still-U-by-Jeffrey-Kaye-090723-585.html Jeffrey Kaye A new Air Force Special Operations Command Instruction (48-101) on "Aeromedical Special Operations" describes the current use of SERE psychologists as Special Forces psychologists. Moreover, it puts them in charge of "psychological oversight of battlefield interrogation and detention," among other functions. SERE psychologists were implicated in the construction of torture protocols at Guantanamo and elsewhere. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Leaked-International-Red-by-Valtin-090315-466.html Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:54:45 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/Leaked-International-Red-by-Valtin-090315-466.html Jeffrey Kaye Mark Danner has scooped the NY Times, the Washington Post and other papers by publishing in the current New York Review of Books an essay quoting long excerpts of a leaked International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) report on "high-value" prisoners held in CIA black site prisons. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_valtin_071128_apa_on_the_road_to_d.htm Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:23:03 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_valtin_071128_apa_on_the_road_to_d.htm Jeffrey Kaye This article describes the current state of the controversy within the American Psychological Association over the presence of psychologists at "war on terror" detainee centers, and their participation in interrogations that have been linked to detainee abuse and torture.