{"id":1220,"date":"2004-08-03T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2018-08-13T07:14:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T12:14:40","slug":"1220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/03\/1220\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conspiracy of One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-britain-prisoner-abuse-karpinski,0,2256168,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines\" target=\"_new\">Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski opens her mouth and shows more of her Peter Principle qualifications<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Karpinski told British Broadcasting Corp. radio that she had information suggesting officials took action to keep her in the dark about the mistreatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been told there&#8217;s a reliable witness who&#8217;s made a statement &#8230; indicating that not only was I not included in any of the meetings discussing interrogation operations, but specific measures were taken to ensure I would not have access to those facilities, that information or any of the details of interrogations at Abu Ghraib or anywhere else,&#8221; Karpinski said. She didn&#8217;t identify the witness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Correct,&#8221; Karpinski responded when asked if she thought there was a conspiracy at senior level to stop her knowing what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From what I understand &#8230; it was people that had full knowledge of what was going on out at Abu Ghraib who knew that they had to keep Janis Karpinski from discovering any of those activities,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether she thought the conspiracy reached up to the Pentagon or the White House, she said: &#8220;The indication is that it may have.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So she&#8217;s telling foreign news services that her underlings, and maybe those shadowy administration figures, conspired to make her a poor leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once more, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski opens her mouth and shows more of her Peter Principle qualifications: Karpinski told British Broadcasting Corp. radio that she had information suggesting officials took action to keep her in the dark about the mistreatment. &#8220;I have been told there&#8217;s a reliable witness who&#8217;s made a statement &#8230; indicating that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22994,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/22994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}