Janis Karpinski Quotes

• They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

  Janis Karpinski

  Cutting, People, Prison

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• 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 wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

  Janis Karpinski

  Support, Priorities, Soldier

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• 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 practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.

  Janis Karpinski

  Responsibility, Law, Interrogation Techniques

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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.

  Janis Karpinski

  Military, War, Home

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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 who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

  Janis Karpinski

  Soldier, Attention, Care

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• 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 set up a training program.

  Janis Karpinski

  Responsibility, July, Training

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• 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 how many criminal prison operations we could support.

  Janis Karpinski

  Running, Military, Mps

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