after the nov . 11 attacks , malinowski stated , the cia bypassed the orders of fbi and military interrogators and turned to contractors " whose approach would be consistency with the bush administration ' s theory that you have to travel to the dark side to fight the evil side . " dod officials have maintained that the program turned to contractors because the department didn ' t have its own roster of skilled interrogated , and that contractors were required to abide by the same rules as american employees . but a potential interrogations , jason a . passaro , was convicted of beating an afghan prisoner who later died . passaro was sentence in 2007 to eight years in imprisoned .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.