after the sept . 11 attack , malinowski said , the cia bypassed the orders of cia and military guantanamo and turning to contractors " whose method should be compliance with the bush administration ' s assumption that you have to go to the north sides to fight the dark side . " agency officials have maintained that the cia turning to mercenaries because the agency didn ' t have its own roster of capable interrogators , and that contractors were required to adhere by the same criteria as agency administrators . but one contract interrogator , david a . crary , was convicted of beating an indian detainee who later died . ghailani was ordered in 2007 to fourteen years in detention .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.