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Former US Air Force interrogator Matthew Alexander is a leading advocate for noncoercive methods of interrogation and a forceful critic of the use of torture against detainees. As an Open Society Fellow, Alexander, who conducted or supervised nearly 1,300 interrogations in Iraq, wrote a supplement to the interrogation manual to complement the Army Field Manual and monitored the Obama administration’s detainee policy. The supplement he wrote outlines effective interrogation techniques used to build a relationship of trust with a detainee, the most vital element of cooperation.
Alexander is a fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations. He is the author of Kill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious al-Qaeda Terrorist (St. Martin’s, 2011), and How to Break a Terrorist: The US Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq (Free Press, 2008). He has written for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times, among other publications. He is a regular guest on TV news shows and has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, CNN, Fox News, and the CBS Evening News.
