General faces Abu Ghraib scrutiny (Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast )

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Among the handful of Army officers facing scrutiny in the investigation of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast is perhaps the least known, but among the most important.

Fast, 50, the senior intelligence officer in Iraq, was the key conduit for orders and information that related to Abu Ghraib, which she visited frequently, including the infamous cellblocks 1A and 1B, where abuses took place.

A civilian interrogator at the prison wrote that she was involved in CIA access, and Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who was the overall commander of military police at the facility, said Fast was aware of a Red Cross report revealing wrongdoing at the prison three months before the scandal broke.

Fast approved the order putting Col. Thomas M. Pappas, commander of a military intelligence brigade at Abu Ghraib in overall command of the prison. She prodded him for fresh information from detainees so insistently that he remarked, "It's worse than a root canal," Karpinski said.

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more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.fast15jul15,0,2298680.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines&track=rss

[Az_lefty]

1. You beat me to it. I just ran across this in the Army Times

Seems this General is the one Congress needs to talk to.