The Interrogator’s Dilemma: Abuse, Accountability, and the Myth of the “Ticking Time Bomb”

Matthew Alexander is a former senior interrogator for the U.S. Air Force who conducted or supervised over 1,000 interrogations in Iraq and Afghanistan.  In this event, Alexander discusses current training methods and details his own efforts to amend the US Army Field Manual to include noncoercive techniques and remove passages that could be read as sanctioning torture.

He also reports on his recent research trip to Indonesia, South Korea, and Singapore, where he interviewed senior intelligence officials, including the chief of Detachment 88, Indonesia's elite counterterrorism unit.

Alexander is introduced by Nancy Chang, who directs the Human Rights and National Security Campaign of Open Society’s U.S. Programs.