Janis Karpinski: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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'''Janis Leigh Karpinski''' (born [[May 25]], [[1953]], [[Rahway, New Jersey]]<ref>Copeland, Libby. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13114-2004May9.html "Prison Revolt: Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski Says the Abu Ghraib Investigation Is About Scapegoating, but She's Having None of It"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', [[May 10]], [[2004]]. Accessed [[December 20]], [[2007]]. "As a child growing up in Rahway, N.J., Janis Beam once tried to jump from her second-story window because it didn't seem that far down."</ref>) is a central figure in the [[Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse]] scandal.

Karpinski is currently a [[United States Army]] [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] in the 800th [[Military Police Corps|Military Police]] [[Brigade]]. She was demoted from [[Brigadier General]] in the aftermath of the scandal, for dereliction of duty, making a material misrepresentation to investigators, and failure to obey a lawful order.<Ref>Colonel Karpinski had failed to inform the Army as required when filling out an official document about an earlier arrest on an Air Force base in the US on a misdemeanour charge.</ref> She was the commander of three large US- and British-led [[prison]]s in [[Iraq]] in 2003, eight [[battalion]]s, and 3400 Army reservists. Karpinski claims that she was made a "scapegoat" in order to protect higher ranking military personnel from the scandal.<ref>http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2701/context/archive</ref>

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