Matthew Alexander is a former senior interrogator for the U.S. Air Force who conducted or supervised nearly 1,300 interrogations in Iraq. Alexander has become a leading advocate for non-coercive methods of interrogation and a relentless critic of the harsh techniques used by the military during the Bush administration.
Alexander is the author of How to Break a Terrorist: The US Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq and 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.