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04-28-2009, 05:12 AM

This is a CBC radio interview (Monday, Apr 27-09). Janis Karpinski was demoted to Colonel after the 'transition' from detention to interrogation centres occurred via the Bush Administration/ private contractors. She gets quite outraged that the abuses were blamed on soldiers ('bad apples,' as it was PR'ed by the Administration); some were trying to document with photographs.
Audio: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2009/200904/20090427.html
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Part 2: Abu Ghraib - Janis Karpinski

Over the weekend, the once secretive former US Vice-President Dick Cheney was pushing for the release of more CIA documents to try to bolster his arguments that interrogation tactics such as waterboarding thwarted terrorist plots.

This after the release of a report last week of the Senate Armed Services Committee. It made clear that senior Bush Administration officials approved the use of interrogation or torture tactics such as waterboarding. That contradicts former President George W. Bush's assertion that abuse or torture that may have happened was the result of rogue individuals and not government policy.

Janis Karpinski paid a steep price for the Bush Administration's policies. She was a Brigadier General and the person in charge of more than a dozen detention facilities in Iraq after the U.S. military invasion including the now-notorious Abu Ghraib prison. She was demoted, one of only two high ranking officers to be punished over what happened. Janis Karpinski was in New York City.

See also: Janis Karpinski: Exclusive Interview, Aug 24-05
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1130/26

"I just find it incredible that the system - the Pentagon and the Judicial System - can continue to keep those soldiers in jail when there are simply volumes of documents and information that is emerging, and continues to emerge, that says exactly what one, in particular, Graner, was saying all along: that he was ordered to do these things by the Military Intelligence people and the interrogators, the contract interrogators. And there's more and more information to support that. The recommendation was that General Miller from Gitmo be reprimanded and his four-star commander from SOUTHCOM said no, I don't agree with that."

04-28-2009, 05:12 AM	#2
no caste Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Interrogation! Cheney, Rice... This is a CBC radio interview (Monday, Apr 27-09). Janis Karpinski was demoted to Colonel after the 'transition' from detention to interrogation centres occurred via the Bush Administration/ private contractors. She gets quite outraged that the abuses were blamed on soldiers ('bad apples,' as it was PR'ed by the Administration); some were trying to document with photographs. Audio: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2009/200904/20090427.html ...................... Part 2: Abu Ghraib - Janis Karpinski Over the weekend, the once secretive former US Vice-President Dick Cheney was pushing for the release of more CIA documents to try to bolster his arguments that interrogation tactics such as waterboarding thwarted terrorist plots. This after the release of a report last week of the Senate Armed Services Committee. It made clear that senior Bush Administration officials approved the use of interrogation or torture tactics such as waterboarding. That contradicts former President George W. Bush's assertion that abuse or torture that may have happened was the result of rogue individuals and not government policy. Janis Karpinski paid a steep price for the Bush Administration's policies. She was a Brigadier General and the person in charge of more than a dozen detention facilities in Iraq after the U.S. military invasion including the now-notorious Abu Ghraib prison. She was demoted, one of only two high ranking officers to be punished over what happened. Janis Karpinski was in New York City. See also: Janis Karpinski: Exclusive Interview, Aug 24-05 http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1130/26 "I just find it incredible that the system - the Pentagon and the Judicial System - can continue to keep those soldiers in jail when there are simply volumes of documents and information that is emerging, and continues to emerge, that says exactly what one, in particular, Graner, was saying all along: that he was ordered to do these things by the Military Intelligence people and the interrogators, the contract interrogators. And there's more and more information to support that. The recommendation was that General Miller from Gitmo be reprimanded and his four-star commander from SOUTHCOM said no, I don't agree with that."