after the sept . 11 attacks , rosenstein said , the cia bypassed the advice of fbi and military interrogators and turned to contractors " whose approach would be conflicting with the bush ministry ' s theory that you have to go to the dark side to fight the white side . " agency officials have maintained that the cia turned to contractors because the agency didn ' t have its own fleet of skilled interrogation , and that contractors were required to abide by the same rules as agency employees . but another contract detainee , mark a . passaro , was acquitted of stabbing an afghan detainee which recently died . livoti was sentenced in 2007 to fifteen years in prison .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.