"Military police know what to do, they know……" — Janis Karpinski
"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 their control."
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23 Quotes by Janis Karpinski
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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…
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I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers…
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I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand…
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At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of…
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If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and…
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I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running,…
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They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
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I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.
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The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under…
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The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad.…
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Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to…
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That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they…
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