Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

2006 - Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. 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. An investigation was started into the abuse.

On May 5 2005 President George W. Bush approved Karpinski's demotion to Colonel from the rank of Brigadier General. She commanded three prisons in Iraq and the forces that ran them.