Abu Quote by Janis Karpinski

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

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

— 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 turn you…

— Janis Karpinski

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

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

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

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

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

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 the information…

— Janis Karpinski

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

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…

— Janis Karpinski