Matthew Alexander

Torture May Have Slowed Hunt For Bin Laden, Not Hastened It

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Cia, War on Terror, Liz Cheney, Interrogation, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Torture Debate, Matthew Alexander, Steven Kleinman, Bin Laden, John Yoo, Glenn Carle, Dick Cheney, Torture, Detainees, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Torture apologists are reaching precisely the wrong conclusion from the back-story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, say experienced interrogators and ...

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Torture Did Not Lead the U.S. to Bin Laden

David Danzig | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Torture, Interrogation, Interrogators, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Law and Security, Joe Navarro, Torture and Accountability, Osama Bin Laden, Matthew Alexander, Politics News

Four leading former interrogators and intelligence officials argue today that, "The use of waterboarding and other so-called 'enhanced' interrogation...

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How a U.S. Army "Gator" Gets Information in Less Than 10 Minutes

David Danzig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law and Security, Interrogation, Matthew Alexander, US Military, Army, Military, Afghanistan, Military Ethics, Iraq, West Point Cadets, West Point, Interrogation Tactics, Books News

The first time I taught a one-hour class at West Point, a 20-year-old student made it very clear that while he might be studying ethics, law and morality in school, it was practicalities that really concerned him.

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Rep. King: Meet Muslim-American Heroes

Matthew Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, American Islamophobia, Peter King, Interrogations, Matthew-Alexander, Iraq, King Hearings, Politics News

I know what Muslim-American interpreters and soldiers are doing for their country -- some are now buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Representative King's words are an insult to those heroes.

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"Damn Right" Bush Says He'd OK Torture Again, But Waterboarding Did Not Save Lives According to U.S. Interrogators

Human Rights First | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matthew Alexander, Bush Memoir, Law and Security, Interrogators, Torture, World News

When the CIA asked President George W. Bush if they had the authority to waterboard suspected Al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Muhammed in 2003, Presid...

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Why Musicians Are Right, Liz Cheney Is Wrong

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billy Bragg, Pearl Jam, Trent Reznor, Keep-America-Safe, Liz Cheney, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, The Roots, Jackson Browne, Matthew Alexander, Votevets, Roseanne-Cash, R.E.M., Rise Against, Torture, Politics News

By lobbying to keep Guantanamo Bay open, Liz Cheney's group is helping keep alive one of the greatest recruiting posters that al Qaeda ever had.

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The Company You Keep

Tom Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011

Yesterday's announcement by acclaimed musicians that they were signing onto our National Campaign to Close Guantanamo Bay generated a harsh response from Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol.

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The Torture Report

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Glenn Greenwald, Freedom of Information Act, Department of Justice, President Bush, Maj. David Frakt, Marcy Wheeler, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Matthew Alexander, Politics News

Five years after Abu Ghraib, the Defense Department is still withholding photographs showing prisoners being abused at other facilities, as well as interrogation directives used by special forces.

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Did the Washington Post's Richard Cohen Scare the "#!#!" Out of You?

David Danzig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Dia, How-to-Break-a-Terrorist, Eric Maddox, Matthew Alexander, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Richard Cohen, Iraq, Stuart Herrington, Torture, Politics News

Why would U.S. interrogators choose to use torture when other techniques have proven to be so much more effective?

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Ex-Interrogators Are Mad as Hell About Torture, and They're Not Gonna Take Cheney Anymore

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moveon, Tom Hayden, Abuse, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, Matthew Alexander, Iraq, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Detainees, Politics News

More and more, former interrogators and counterinsurgency experts are using Dick Cheney's recent ubiquity to expose his iniquity regarding the torture and abuse of detainees.

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Why Do So Many Republicans Hate America?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tear Down This Wall, Meet the Press, Reagan Berlin, Ronald Reagan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Dick Durbin, Guantanamo, 9/11, Matthew Alexander, Keith Olbermann, Lindsey Graham, Due Process, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics of Fear, Jonathan Alter, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Freedom, Hate US for Our Freedom, General Petraeus, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Berlin, Torture, Politics News

I say that Cheney and Gingrich don't love America because they don't seem to care about American values as they have traditionally been viewed.

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Former Interrogator Slams Cheney Over Torture Policy

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Barack Obama, Matthew Alexander, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Torture, Video, Politics News

According to Matthew Alexander, the torture and abuse conducted at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo became the number one recruiting tool for foreign fighters who attacked coalition forces in Iraq.

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FBI Interrogator: Waterboarding Does Not Work

David Danzig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matthew Alexander, Waterboarding, Cia, Ali Soufan, Torture, Politics News

According to Ali Soufan, an FBI interrogator, waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" procedures caused a key Al Qaeda operative to clam up, not provide actionable intelligence.

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My Written Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

Matthew Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interrogations, Senate Testimony, How-to-Break-a-Terrorist, Matthew Alexander, Torture, Politics News

This is my full testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse read a portion of this statement near the end of today's hearing.

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Torture Revelations Will Leave the Left Frustrated

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.

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Interrogator On Daily Show: 'I Never Saw Coercive Methods Pay Off'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, War in Iraq, Jon Stewart, Iraq War, Waterboarding, The Daily Show, How to Break a Terrorist, Matthew Alexander, Torture, Media News

Matthew Alexander (not his real name) is a fourteen year Air Force vet who served as an interrogator in Iraq, and he's written a book called How to Br...

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Former US Interrogator: Torture Policy Has Killed Thousands Of US Soldiers

AlterNet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Interrogations, War Wire, Matthew Alexander, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Politics News

Amy Goodman: Writing under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander, a former special intelligence operations officer, who led an interrogations team in Iraq t...

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Interrogator Speaks: I'm Still Tortured By What I Saw In Iraq

washingtonpost.com | Matthew Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq Interrogator, Interrogators Al Qaeda, Team Interrogators, Matthew Alexander, Interrogator Tortured, Military Interrogator, Al-Zarqawi Torture, Iraq, Home News

I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfull...

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