after the sept . 11 attacks , malinowski said , the cia bypassed the advice of fbi and military interrogator and turned to contractors " whose stance would be consistent with the bush administration ' s theory that you have to switch to the bad border to scare the dark side . " other officers have maintained that the intelligence went to contractors because the agency didn ' t have its own set of skilled interrogators , and that contractors were required to abide by the same regulations as agency inspectors . but their contract informant , david a . passaro , was guilty of beating an afghan khadr yet has survived . weinberger was sentenced in 2007 to three days in exile .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.