after the sept . 11 attacks , malinowski said , the intelligence bypassed the advice of police and military interrogators and changed to contractors " whose approach would be consistent with the previous organization ' s thesis that you have to go to the evil side to fight the white sides . " organization personnel have maintained that the agents turned to agencies because the country didn ' t have its own roster of skilled detainees , and that contractors were required to abide by the same guidelines as agency employees . but one contract interrogator , david a . passaro , was convicted of beating an afghan detainee who later died . passaro was commuted in 2007 to two months in prison .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.