Janis Karpinski

The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined…

— Janis Karpinski

I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.

— Janis Karpinski

The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately;…

— Janis Karpinski

If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and…

— Janis Karpinski

And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going…

— Janis Karpinski

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him…

— Janis Karpinski

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations -…

— Janis Karpinski

That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We…

— Janis Karpinski

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a…

— Janis Karpinski

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

— Janis Karpinski

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever…

— Janis Karpinski

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers -…

— Janis Karpinski

If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above…

— Janis Karpinski

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment…

— Janis Karpinski

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the…

— Janis Karpinski

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

— Janis Karpinski

It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a…

— Janis Karpinski

At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA,…

— Janis Karpinski

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me,…

— Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were…

— Janis Karpinski

I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.

— Janis Karpinski

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we…

— Janis Karpinski

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations…

— Janis Karpinski