The issue of private contractors conducting interrogations first came to light in mid-2004... When the media began to question the role of the private contractors..., the Pentagon swiftly issued sole-source ("no bid") military contracts to CACI and Lockheed [Lockheed Martin]... Deborah Pearlstein, director of the U.S. Law and Security Programme at Human Rights First [said] "Based on the Pentagon's own investigations...it seems clear that contractors are less well trained, less well controlled, and harder to hold accountable for things that go wrong than are regular troops"...