Col. Janis Karpinski, a former one-star Army Reserve general who was punished in the [Abu Ghraib] scandal, blamed Gen. Geoffrey Miller for the methods that were used to humiliate detainees.
Miller headed the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and was sent to Iraq to recommend improvements in intelligence gathering and detention operations there.
"I believe that Gen. Miller gave them the ideas, gave them the instruction on what techniques to use," she said in an interview on the ABC News "Nightline" program.
Asked if she was referring to the positioning of prisoners in human pyramids and putting dog leashes on detainees, Karpinski said, "I can tell you with certainty that the MPs (military police) certainly did not design those techniques, they certainly did not come to Abu Ghraib or to Iraq with dog collars and dog leashes."
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The Army, of course, would like to discredit the once General, now Colonel Karpinski.
The Army said Karpinski was demoted due to dereliction of duty and concealing a past shoplifting arrest.
Reuters article
Former Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told The Signal of Santa Clarita newspaper that she was never arrested or charged and the Army only brought the allegation to demote her after the Iraq prison scandal broke.
Karpinski said she removed a bottle of facial cream from her purse then returned it while rummaging for her cell phone.
Though a security guard mistakenly believed the bottle belonged to the shop, store personnel later concluded it was her property.
Karpinski was demoted to colonel last week after the Army's inspector general investigated four allegations against her, including shoplifting.
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