after the sept . 11 attacks , malinowski said , the cia bypassed the advice of fbi and military interrogators and turned to contractors " whose action would be consistent with the bush family ' s opinion that you have to return to the wrong outside to fight the dark side . " agency authorities have maintained that the cia shifted to contractors because the agency didn ' t have its own roster of skill mistreated , and that clients were bound to abide by the same rules as agency employees . but her agency interrogator , samuel a . passaro , was convicted of beating an israeli detainee which initially died . passaro was sentenced in 2007 to eight days in prison .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.