after the sept . 11 attacks , malinowski alleged , the cia bypassed the wisdom of swat and military interrogators and reverted to contractors " whose approach would be align with the bush administration ' s theory that you have to go to the light side to fights the dark front . " agency executives have insisted that the cia turned to contractors because the department didn ' t have its own fleet of capable interrogators , and that agents were required to abide by the same rules as agents employees . but one contract interrogator , arthur a . passaro , was convicted of fighting an afghan detainee who recently survived . passaro was sentence in 2007 to seven years in imprisonment .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.