Karpinsky has also been all over the media making excuses.
AND the Occifer machine has kicked in to defend her... Let the Enlisted take the fall...
Makes me ill.
Don't take that one to the bank just yet. IMHO these court-martials of underlings are laying groundwork for some whackings of overlings. Everybody I know (and my daily encounters run from E-4, corporal, to O-6, colonel) is disgusted by the collapse of leadership and discipline in that unit.
The commander of the MI Company involved is also female, and she's also lawyering up (as well she should; I see an Article 32 investigation in her immediate future). But all the skunks aren't women by any means. One of the MP company commanders is male and is a bigger jerk that Karpinski -- he is certainly facing prison time (among his other, uniquely military violations, the sleazeball took pictures of his female subordinates -- while they were showering. Scaly, scaly, scaly geek....) I don't have the Taguba Report in front of me here, but I believe this jerk's name is Leo Merck. Watch the news.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F