Janis Karpinski

Quick Facts

Full Name	Janis Karpinski
Occupation	Military Personnel
Date Of Birth	May 25, 1953(1953-05-25)
Age	71
Birthplace	Rahway
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Taurus

Janis Karpinski Biography

Janis Karpinski is one of the most popular and richest Military Personnel who was born on May 25, 1953 in Rahway, New Jersey, United States. Janis Leigh Karpinski, nee Beam was born May 25, 1953 in Rahway, New Jersey. She is now a retired career officer in the US Army Reserve. Her command of the troops that ran Abu Ghraib prison and other Iraqi prisons during the torture scandal and prisoner abuse scandal in 2003 and 2004 is noteworthy. She was the commander of three prisons in Iraq and the forces that managed them. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and secondary education at Kean College, a Master’s degree in aviation management at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a Master’s degree in strategic studies at the U.S. Army War College.

Karpinski’s allegations have not been addressed by the Pentagon nor US army spokespersons in Iraq. However, revelations have emerged about the Torture Memos. John Yoo, on March 14, 2003 to the General Counsel at DOD, made a Torture Memos in which he stated that interrogators abroad were exempt from federal torture and other abuses laws. This was five days prior to the US invasion.

In September 2003, Karpinski led US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on a tour of the Abu Ghraib prison to demonstrate the way it had been used by Saddam Hussein to torture his enemies.

In June 2003, during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, Karpinski was in command of the 800th Military Police Brigade placing her in charge of the fifteen detention facilities in southern and central Iraq run by Coalition forces. She had no experience running correctional facilities. Karpinski was also given command of the National Guard and Army reserve units in the Iraqi city of Mosul who handled prisoners. Most of the forces had no training in handling prisoners. But at least two of the guardsmen later convicted of prisoner abuse had lengthy civilian experience as prison guards.

She was promoted to the Army Reserve in 1987. She worked as a consultant in the private sector and ran training programs that were military-styled for executives.

Janis Karpinski Net Worth

Janis Karpinski is one of the richest Military Personnel from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Janis Karpinski 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Karpinski was commissioned in the Army as a Second Lieutenant on September 12, 1977. Her duties included intelligence and military police, training the first female soldiers for the United Arab Emirates. She also toured to support the Special Forces in Saudi Arabia and the First Gulf War. She was awarded the Bronze Star.

When they conduct an investigation with this kind of potential, the rules say that you must identify an impartial person to investigate. General Taguba didn’t serve one day in Iraq. He spent his deployment time in Kuwait. He was also, it turned out, a close friend of General Sanchez. General Sanchez had given General Taguba specific instructions about what he wanted to read in the conclusions. General Taguba was then able to do and complete what General Sanchez requested. He did just that. Because he was not impartial and there has been so much more information, the findings of the report were largely discredited. …[General Taguba] wasn’t charged with the discovery of the photos. General Taguba was instructed to investigate General Karpinski’s 800th Military Police Brigade.

In October 2003, allegations of torture in the US-managed Iraqi prisons began to surface. Karpinski insisted that prisoners under her watch were treated “humanely and fairly”. In an interview with the St. Petersburg Times in December 2003, Karpinski said conditions in the prison were better than many Iraqi homes, and joked that the prisoners were treated so well that she was “concerned they wouldn’t want to leave.”

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In April 2004, CBS’ 60 Minutes II broadcast photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and humiliated at Abu Ghraib, which had been taken by military personnel. Following the broadcast, Karpinski was suspended from her duties and replaced by Major General Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of Camp X-Ray, part of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

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Janis Ranked on the list of most popular Military Personnel. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Janis Karpinski celebrates birthday on May 25 of every year.

In January 2004, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez formally suspended Karpinski and 16 other soldiers with undisclosed reprimands. An investigation was started into the abuse. Karpinski was reassigned in what was said at the time to be part of “routine troop rotations.” In July 2003, Karpinski stated she had evidence Israelis were involved in interrogations.