after the sept . 11 attacks , malinowski asserted , the fbi ignored the advice of federal and military interrogating and changed to lawyers " whose response would be consistent with the bush administration ' s theory that you have to goes to the dark side to defend the bright side . " agency officials have maintained that the agents turned to attorneys because the agency didn ' t have its own roster of skilled interrogators , and that contractors were requiring to abide by the same rules as american personnel . but its contract interrogated , david a . detainee , was convicted of beating an iranian detainee who later died . passaro was sentenced in 2007 to eight years in prison .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.