Former General Janis Karpinski, who was demoted over the Abu Ghraib scandal, calls for clearing convicted guards of abuse. She says recently released memos prove that the soldiers were following Pentagon orders and are therefore not guilty and "deserve their lives back."
Janis Karpinski, the former commander of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison who was demoted in the wake of the revelations of abuse there, tells Al Jazeera about her reaction to a report that says senior Bush administration officials were involved in approving torture.
Report also says Cheney and Rumsfeld were behing the mistreatment at Abu Ghraib.
Scott Horton, a human rights lawyer and writer on national security issues based in New York, tells Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi a new senate report links the White House to the abusive techniques used in US prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
