I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did. — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support. — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous. — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline,… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished. — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem -… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever. — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
