Janis Karpinski Quotes

We're never going to know the truth until they do an independent commission or look into this independently... This is about instructions delivered with full authority and knowledge of the Secretary of Defense and probably Cheney. I don't know if the President was involved or not. I don't care. All I know is, those instructions were communicated from the Secretary of Defense's office, from the Pentagon, through Cambone, through Miller, to Abu Ghraib.

- Janis Karpinski

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