Some 20 years ago the nation and the world were shocked by photos that emerged from the U,S,-run prison in Abu Ghraib, Iraq.
Those photos showed Iraqi prisoners being subjected to what was called “enhanced interrogation“ – what others called torture.
There was an immediate outcry, as leaders around the world called for someone to be held accountable.
The Army Reserve brigadier general who was in charge of the Abu Ghraib prison, as well as others in the region, was a career officer named Janis Karpinski.
In a 2005 book called One Woman’s Army. Karpinski told the story from her point of view. Her account tells of being scapegoated by an administration looking for a fall guy.
I had the chance to speak with her just six months after President George W. Bush demoted her to colonel for her role in the scandal.
So here now, from 2005, Janis Karpinski.
Janis Karpinski is 72 now. She is married to a Lt. Colonel at the U,S, embassy in Oman.