Tony Camerino

Tony Camerino is a retired Air Force officer and combat veteran of Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq. He started his career as a Special Operations helicopter pilot, and later served as a senior military interrogator for a Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, where he personally conducted or supervised over 1,300 interrogations. Tony was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his achievements, including leading the interrogations that located Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the father of ISIS. An outspoken critic of torture, he frequently appears as an interrogations expert on television and radio and has published two memoirs (How to Break a Terrorist and Kill or Capture) as well as Op-Eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. Tony has trained police and military interrogators from 18 countries. He currently consults for the United Nations in Africa where he teaches non-coercive interviewing with respect for human rights as well as leadership. He also works as a television screenwriter and won an Emmy for his writing on a documentary about JFK called Clouds Over Cuba.