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=== Emerging Details ===
'''Circling the [[Pentagon]] Wagons'''
*Mark Rothschild, [http://www.antiwar.com/rothschild/?articleid=2677 "Karpinski Was 'Set Up,' but Sanchez Takes the Fall,"] ''antiwar.com'', May 28, 2004:
:"Less than two weeks after Lt. Gen. [[Ricardo S. Sanchez]] abruptly removed Brig. Gen. [[Janis Karpinski]] from her command of Abu Ghraib prison" and replaced her as prison commander with "a younger officer of subordinate rank, Col. [[Thomas M. Pappas]]."
:In late November 2003, "Maj. Gen. [[Walter Wojdakowski]], Sanchez's chief deputy, convened a [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.prison16may16,0,703566.story?coll=bal-home-headlines meeting] [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.congress20may20,0,2455064.story?coll=bal-news-nation at which certain legal issues emerging at the prison were discussed]. ... Karpinski was still feeling the sting to her pride caused by the abrupt change of command ordered by Sanchez two weeks earlier."
:"Although Karpinski was criticized in the publicly known summary of the Army's [[Taguba Report]], her status within the Army was unaffected until this week. ... Now, six months after that November meeting, it seems that nothing has changed in the way the Army treats Janis Karpinski. She [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-052404karpinski_lat,1,5558236.story?coll=la-home-headlines complained] on Monday that she had just received a terse email notifying her that she has now been officially suspended from her command. ... No explanation was offered to her and no one called to tell her of her suspension."
:"It is now clear that the Pentagon's wagons are circling and that Karpinski is on the outside. However, back in November of 2003 it was not so clear to Karpinski that she was being set up to take a fall."
'''Rumsfeld's "Out of the Loop"'''
