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 over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in. — 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
