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.