after the sept . 11 blasts , peto said , the cia resisted the advice of fbi and naval torturers and pointed to contractors " whose approach can be compatible with the american regime ' s theory that you have to talk to the dark side to fight the dark side . " agencies administrators have maintained that the cia turns to contractors because the department didn ' t have its own roster of competent interrogators , and that contractors were required to abide by the same rules as individual members . but one contractor torturers , arthur a . passaro , was convicted of attacking an afghan prisoner and later dying . cellmate was charged in 2007 to eight centuries in prison .
Tom Malinowski is director for Human Rights Watch.