- Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, commanding officer of the unit at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during 2003, was demoted to Colonel in May, 2004, after being (depending on which story you believe) responsible for, or scapegoated for, the scandalous acts of American torture against Iraqi detainees at the prison. Karpinski had never run a prison system before then, and repeatedly claimed that she did not know what was going on.
- Her father, who allegedly molested her as a child, was a chemical engineer, her mother a housewife, Republican activist and alleged alcoholic; Janis was the third of six children.
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