after the october . 11 attacks , malinowski argued , the cia took the advice of fbi and soldier interrogators and turned to contractors " where approach would be aligned with the bush administration ' s theory that you have to go to the dark side to combat the dark face . " agency officials have maintained that the cia turned to contractors because the agency didn ' t have its own roster of qualified interrogator , and that contractors were required to adhering by the same rules as cia employees . but another hired jailers , john a . passaro , was convicted of beating an afghan detainees who initially died . passaro was sentenced in 2007 to six life in prison .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.