Posted on 11/25/2006 9:16:20 AM PST by Prost1
Edited on 11/25/2006 10:21:24 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
MADRID (Reuters) - Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison's former U.S. Commander said in an interview on Saturday.
Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told Spain's El Pais newspaper she had seen a letter apparently signed by Rumsfeld which allowed civilian contractors to use techniques such as sleep deprivation during interrogation.
Karpinski, who ran the prison until early 2004, said she saw a memorandum signed by Rumsfeld detailing the use of harsh interrogation methods.
"The handwritten signature was above his printed name and in the same handwriting in the margin was written: "Make sure this is accomplished,"" she told Saturday's El Pais.
"The methods consisted of making prisoners stand for long periods, sleep deprivation ... playing music at full volume, having to sit in uncomfortably ... Rumsfeld authorized these specific techniques."
The Geneva Convention says prisoners of war should suffer "no physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion" to secure information.
A typical Sunday at Lambeau Field.
This female is going all out to CYA. or CHA as the case may be.
Undoubtedly, she was elevated and promoted under the Clinton Defense Department regime. A real product of that culture.
"...sleep deprivation ... playing music at full volume, having to sit in uncomfortably..."
It's called going to college.
>>How did she ever manage to be promoted to full Colonel, never mind General? Obviously, it wasn't for her management skill
Female "affirmative action"?
Which of course guarantees promotion of the incompetent, or at least, the less able.
Rumsfeld OK'd forms of interrogation - he did NOT OK abuse. The General's got problems...
O.K. I confess.
Don't don't threaten to put her panties on my head.
Whew! Just reading the headline I thought they were talking about a real military person, but no, it's just that karping Karpinski.
She was lazy and inept, and apparently criminally negligent, and she's looking for somewhere to place the blame. With the help of the euroweinies, she can probably smear all of her incompetence and negligence on an honorable man.
Sounds like aiding and abetting the enemy.
In short TREASON
"...stand for long periods, sleep deprivation ... playing music at full volume, having to sit in uncomfortably..."
I'm sorry, some of this was done at Waco and it was OK then...It's not torture. Chopping off genitals is torture. Killing your children in front of you is torture. Hanging a person upside down from a hook and beating the soles of their feet bloody is torture.
These guys are wussies and their attorneys are Marxist enablers who hate America.
In other words, the officer directly responsible for Abu Ghraib, who couldn't bring herself to even visit the prison -- much less insist on military discipline, is going to blame her failure on somebody else.
Janis Karpinski needs to spend several years in the stockade, herself. Instead, the MSM will mold her into some kind of perverse hero.
How is it that she still getting away with this?
I have no idea but it is Treason technically
Karpinski was promoted to General during the Clinton administration -- at the reported insistence of the Clintons (and her radical feminist buddies).
That should explain everything.
How many Brigadier Generals get their orders direct from the SecDef?
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