From 2009 to 2010, Matthew Alexander was an Open Society Fellow. A former U.S. Air Force interrogator, 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.
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 U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq (Free Press, 2008).