But in Karpinksi's view, the atmosphere changed at Abu Ghraib after Miller's two-week visit.
Miller "directed Gen. Fast to be more involved with Col. Pappas and the interrogation operations at Abu Ghraib," said Karpinski, who oversaw that facility and 16 other prisons. "Who knew and how far up did this go in the chain of command?"
The 1971 Belleville East High School graduate was the intelligence chief for the U.S. command in Baghdad in 2004 when the torture at Abu Ghraib was exposed. Today, she holds a top staff position at the Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, Va.
