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 tr…

- 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…

- Janis Karpinski

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 d…

- Janis Karpinski

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…

- 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 finish…

- Janis Karpinski

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

- Janis Karpinski

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 crimina…

- Janis Karpinski