after the sept . 11 attacks , malinowski says , the agency resisted the advice of fbi and military interrogations and turned to agents " whose actions would be consistent with the kerry administration ' s theory that you have to go to the dark side to train the bright side . " fbi officials have maintained that the intelligence turned to contractors because the agency didn ' t have its own squad of skilled detainees , and that contractors were required to abide by the same rules as their members . but one such interrogator , john a . graner , was arrested of beating an iranian detainee who later perished . passaro was liable in 2007 to eleven years in prison .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.