Brave New Films Captures Hard Evidence Against Cheney Torture Policies

Brave New Films Captures Hard Evidence Against Cheney Torture Policies
Reported by Ellen | News Hounds

Brave New Films (with whom we are proud to be affiliated) did an interview with someone who, unlike Dick Cheney, actually served in the military and conducted interrogations. His verdict? Torture has not saved American lives but has cost lots of them, perhaps thousands. Video after the jump.

Brave New Films writes:

Matthew Alexander was the senior military interrogator for the task force that tracked down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq and, at the time, a higher priority target than Osama bin Laden. Mr. Alexander has personally conducted hundreds of interrogations and supervised over a thousand of them.

"Torture does not save lives. Torture costs us lives," Mr. Alexander said in an exclusive interview at Brave New Studios. "And the reason why is that our enemies use it, number one, as a recruiting tool...These same foreign fighters who came to Iraq to fight because of torture and abuse....literally cost us hundreds if not thousands of American lives."