All Janis Karpinski Quotes
- 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. Brigade
- 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… Attention
- 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… Care
- 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… Contractor
- 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… All
- 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… Assigned
- They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose. All
- I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed. 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… Combat
- 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… Baghdad
- 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… Ambassador
- 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… Abandoned
- The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever. Abu
- In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq. Abu
- 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… 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… Control
- Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is… Cost
- I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous. Abu
- 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… Access
- 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… Capture
- 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… Abu
- 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… Been
- 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 - anywhere… Admit