Brigadier General (Ret) Janis Karpinski, former commander of Abu Ghraib, and a panel member of the Bush Crimes Tribunal national speaking tour, recently spoke at UCLA’s Moore Hall. “General Miller and General Sanchez would not have implemented a new set of [harsher] techniques without the approval of the Secretary of Defense [Rumsfeld]. The Secretary of Defense would not have authorized without the approval of the Vice President.” photo by Margaret Molloy
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