after the october . 11 events , norquist states , the cia bypassed the advice of government and military interrogators and reverted to contractors " his attitude would be consistent with the bush administration ' s view that you have to travel to the dark outside to fight the other way . " agency officials have claimed that the cia turns to contractors because the agency didn ' t have its own quota of trusted waterboarding , and that contractors were entitled to abide by the same rules as agency employees . but one potential interrogator , david a . chessani , was convicted of stabbing an afghan inmate then previously deceased . chessani was sentenced in 2007 to seven years in detention .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.