As we reported yesterday, CIA contractor David Passaro has been charged with crimes arising from the death of an Afghan prisoner. Some are asking why:

Have you asked yourself why David Passaro, of all the possible number of people involved in just such incidents in Afghanistan--where the number of deaths under interrogation goes into, I believe, at least the double digits--gets indicted? Today, an excellently researched and reported story in the WaPo by Susan Schmidt and Dana Priest gives one possible answer.

You see, the person killed in that incident was a man called Abdul Wali who last June 21 voluntarily gave himself up for questioning at the CIA/Special Forces base at Asadabad--and he had been accompanied to the base by the Hyder Akbar, the 18-year-old, US-educated son of a nearby, US-installed provincial governor, Sayed Fazl Akbar.

Read the Wapo article for the rest of the story.