...When confronted by the Iraqi public outcry – for Anayfas was only one of several war criminals whose paperwork was lost and she released – Karpinski proceeded to evade responsibility and fabricated an entire string of deceptive excuses. Just like she is doing now.
Very, very suspicious to me. Has anyone investigated her finances? I'm a natural cynic, so thoughts of bribery immediately came to mind.
I apologize if I'm off base on this, but the article suggests that she's either incompetent or downright corrupt. If these allegations are true, she should be relieved of command immediately.
I don't know of she was taking anything under the table. It sounds like a simple...yet snoballing case of CYA on her part.
Worried more about her next OER she chose to obfusciate and allow incompetence and mismanagement by people below her to spread into the crap we see on TV about Abu Ghraib every minute.
Soldiers, while for the most part disciplined in their actions are human. If the bad apples that caused Abu Ghraib...saw that the brass were looking the other way...that was interpreted as a green light to continue their treatment of the prisoners.