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Five years ago, revelations of the torture of prisoners in Iraq at Abu Ghraib prison resulted in the prosecution of low-ranking members of a military police unit headed by then-Brigadier General Janis Karpinski,who was demoted to colonel for not having prevented abuse of detainees, despite evidence that such "extraordinary measures" had been sanctioned by commanders in Washington.
This week, when President Obama ordered the release of information about Bush administration policies on "enhanced interrogation" and a new Senate report outlined the history of the development those policies, CBS's Early Show turned to Karpinski for comment.
Karpinski told Howard K. Smith that she felt the report put her troops' actions in context. "Scapegoated is the perfect word,and it's an understatement," said Karpinski
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