Janis Karpinski Quotes

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• 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.
• 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…
• I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There…
• At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to…
• If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for…
• 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…
• They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
• I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.
• The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population…
• The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to…
• Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because…
• That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped…
• The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.
• In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.
• The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu…
• Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under…
• Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is…
• I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
• And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was…
• After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a…

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