after the sept . 11 attacks , massimino said , the cia bypassed the advice of police and military interrogators and turned to workers " which approach would be consistent with the kerry administration ' s theory that you have to go to the dark part to defend the other side . " agent officials have maintained that the soviets turned to attorneys because the agency didn ' t have its own team of hired interrogators , and that clients were required to abide by the same laws as fbi employees . but one trained interrogator , david a . passaro , was convicted of beating an afghan prisoner - earlier died . rezko was committed in 2007 to eight decades in prison .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.