Tony Camerino
- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Tony Camerino is an Emmy-award winning writer known for his work on all five seasons of the hit CBS drama Person of Interest, which won two People's Choice Awards. He also wrote on the network television dramas A.P.B, Taken, and The Enemy Within, and has developed original projects for Netflix (a Black Hawk Down TV adaptation and an Area 51 series), Amazon, and Fox. Camerino is developing a true-story Vietnam mini-series with Fremantle. His feature script Landslide (co-written with Will Staples), based on his military memoir How to Break a Terrorist, made the 2015 Blacklist and is also in development. He also authored Kill or Capture (St. Martin's Press) and won an Emmy for his writing on a documentary about JFK called Clouds Over Cuba.
Tony is a combat veteran of Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq, and retired with 20 years of service in the Air Force. He started his career as a Special Operations helicopter pilot, and was awarded an Aerial Achievement Medal for his accomplishments in the Balkan wars. He later served as a Special Agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations where he conducted criminal investigations and counterintelligence. As a senior military interrogator for a Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, 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 notorious Al Qaeda leader and father of ISIS, who was killed in a subsequent airstrike.
An outspoken critic of torture, Camerino frequently appears as an interrogations expert on television (The Daily Show) and radio and has published Op-Eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and a cover story, "Martyrdom, Interrupted," in The National Interest. Tony has trained U.S. Army interrogators, US Marshals, and foreign interrogators from 17 countries. Most recently he trained police and military personnel in Nigeria and Cameroon for the United Nations. He is a Fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations and a screenwriting instructor at UCLA Extension.
Tony is a combat veteran of Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq, and retired with 20 years of service in the Air Force. He started his career as a Special Operations helicopter pilot, and was awarded an Aerial Achievement Medal for his accomplishments in the Balkan wars. He later served as a Special Agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations where he conducted criminal investigations and counterintelligence. As a senior military interrogator for a Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, 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 notorious Al Qaeda leader and father of ISIS, who was killed in a subsequent airstrike.
An outspoken critic of torture, Camerino frequently appears as an interrogations expert on television (The Daily Show) and radio and has published Op-Eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and a cover story, "Martyrdom, Interrupted," in The National Interest. Tony has trained U.S. Army interrogators, US Marshals, and foreign interrogators from 17 countries. Most recently he trained police and military personnel in Nigeria and Cameroon for the United Nations. He is a Fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations and a screenwriting instructor at UCLA Extension.
