Shoplifting Charge Dogs Iraq Gen.

[dArKeR]

An American general caught up in the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal is now at the center of a new controversy involving allegations about her past, but she's calling it a smear campaign.

Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who claims she has been made a scapegoat for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, is the subject of an investigation by the Army Inspector General involving an alleged shoplifting incident in October of 2002, one year before the abuses began, reports CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin.

According to military sources, Karpinski was caught shoplifting a $22 bottle of perfume from a military department store — or PX — at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.

When CBS News asked her about it, she said it never happened.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/02/eveningnews/main620801.shtml

I'm honestly saying the Bush Family is really a Crime Family. Just as the Mafia finds people who they 'have' something on to be able to blackmail or smear them in the future, I believe Karpinsk was promoted to this position so that Bush could blackmail her.

And the Bush Adm. doesn't blackmail? We'll if you read their own statements, that's exactly what they were trying to do to the Iraq prisoners. Blackmail them for future use. Maybe promote a prisoner to Iraqi President and thus be able to control that person forever.

[TrueAmerican]

1. The story has at least one error

There is no PX on MacDill AFB, there is a BX.

[morcatknits]

2. Blackmail

Yeah, remember Scott Ritter? As soon as he became troublesome about the war in Iraq, there were some dark charges against him. Have we heard anything about it since he more or less shut up? Seems like the media didn't follow-up on that one.
Good knitting,
Morcat

[Lou_C]

3. I don't want to be rude but she doesn't look like she wears perfume

:shrug:

[tabasco]

4. Military Police.

Think they are above the law.