after the sept . 11 assaults , malinowski wrote , the cia misunderstood the advice of fbi and soldier interrogators and appealed to lawyers " the approach would be compliant with the roosevelt administration ' s theory that you have to go to the dark side to fight the dark side . " agency personnel have maintained that the cia turned to contractors because the agencies didn ' t have its own roster of experienced interrogators , and that contractors were required to enforce by the same rules as agency employee . but a potential torturer , david a . detainee , was tried of whipping an afghan detainee who then died . passaro was sentenced in 2007 to eight days in prison .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.