Colonel Steven M. Kleinman (US Air Force-retired) has 30 years of operational and leadership experience as an intelligence officer and interrogator. He is a recognized subject matter expert in human intelligence, intelligence support to special operations, counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, strategic interrogation, and resistance to interrogation. Col. Kleinman is a highly decorated veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has been influential in advocating for science-based interrogation practice, including in testimony before Congress.