Barry McCaffarey hammered her after her interview.
"..RET. GEN. BARRY MCCAFFREY, NBC MILITARY ANALYST: One appalling statement I heard was where she claimed that she was not allowed—and a piece of the prison was under her military command. Her soldiers are in there. Any soldier, this is not the values of the United States Army, the armed forces. So the fact that she didn‘t get in there and sort out what was going on was the most appalling single thing I have read about it.
NORVILLE: That was General Barry McCaffrey on “The Today Show” this morning. We‘re taking an hour-long look at the alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Back now with Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who was the commander of the 800th U.S. Military Brigade. She ran the prison. She‘s also here with her attorney, Neal Puckett.
I know you want to respond to that. That‘s a hugely serious charge.
You didn‘t go where your men were..."
"..KARPINSKI: I did go where my men were. I went where my women were. I went where my soldiers were. And I did not visit there as often as I had in the past. I said that because it was transferred under the control of the military intelligence command. I still had soldiers there certainly, but it was one of 16 facilities under my command.....
PUCKETT (Karpinski's Attorney): One point of clarification.
What General McCaffrey, a piece of information that he has not had available to him or he would not have made that statement, is that he would never go and visit and do an inspection tour of a sister command. He would never go to another commander‘s unit and inspect and check out how well he is doing his job. The same thing applied here. Abu Ghraib, at the time these offenses were committed, did not belong to Brigadier General Karpinski. It was not her prison to go into. It belong to Colonel Pappas.....
(CROSSTALK)
NORVILLE: I understand your position on this. But I‘ve got to tell you, it sort of sounds like passing the buck......."