Posted on 06/04/2004 9:23:39 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Shoplifting Charge Dogs Iraq General
Military Sources: Gen. Karpinski Caught Stealing Perfume In 2002
Jun 3, 2004 5:45 am US/Central
NEW YORK (CBS) 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.
When CBS' Martin asked if Karpinski denied she was ever arrested or picked up in the MacDill Air Force Base store for shoplifting, she responded, "That's correct."
Sources say an Air Force report details the shoplifting incident, but Pentagon officials refuse all comment, saying that would violate Karpinski's rights under the Privacy Act.
Karpinski says if such a document exists, it's a forgery designed to discredit her for speaking out.
Karpinski was a colonel at the time of the alleged shoplifting, but when she showed Defense Secretary Rumsfeld around Abu Ghraib, she was wearing the one star of a brigadier general.
The Army is investigating how ?despite the shoplifting report ?she was promoted and placed in command of all the prisons in Iraq.
Sources say Karpinski was able to go into counseling and do community service because she was a first-time offender and the dollar amount was so small. That apparently kept the incident out of court records and her service file.
But Army officers say it still should have surfaced in the course of background checks that normally include questionnaires asking if you've been arrested in the past seven years. Whether that lapse was the Army's fault or Karpinski's is now under investigation. Her attorney promises she will cooperate fully in any investigation.
They would however release the records if her name was Linda Tripp.
So a full bird steals and still gets their star... I'd like to have that one explained to me.
And if a male PFC stole a bottle of perfume for his girlfriend, he would probably be making little rocks out of big ones....
Gender?
Nah!
Shoplifting.......theft, is a crime of moral turpitude and that alone should have dumped her!
That is a damned good question.
The Air Force calls this a BX - not a PX.
SHE'S BEING SCAPEGOATED !!!11!!
IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT !11!
I could be wrong but I think that she was one of clinton's affirmative action individuals.
Here is what David Martin, or anyone, needs to find out:
A. What was the date of the shoplifting charge?
B. The date she pinned on the stars?
C. Why the CofS, Army, did not flag her records between A and B?
Our local newspapers did a big, love-feast story on her-right after the prison scandal broke.(She is or was from Rahway,NJ)
She's a WOMAN ( W-O-M-A-N ) making it in an E......................vil Man's world , and they're picking on her 'cause she's a girl,and NOW has had to send out for extra panty liners,and.....(Music up) W-O-M-A-N !!
I read the IG reports.Her troops were untrained,undisciplined,and poorly led. She herself had never been inside the prison,once she got her "face time" at the completion of remodeling.
But she's a ... WO-MAN !!
W-O-M-A-N.
I think I'll wait for the results of the DNA test before I take your word for it.
Maybe the military needs another purge. Clinton cleaned out most of the experienced Navy Officer Corps then went after the other services. The only difference between what he did and shat Stalin did is he didn't shoot the officers. Now we are trying to fight a war with an army staffed by Clinton. In that sense, it IS Clinton's army.
Oh the many ways my eyes can trick me. Thought I saw "Shoplifting Dogs" and it was a story about velvet paintings.
She's not a "real" general, but rather a frocked general, due to political pressure from the Fems and Rats. She's a Clinton "appointee" for quota and political purposes; she didn't go through the same promotion board process that other generals do.
So, there's your silver lining.
I can almost guarantee the BX or post exchange has pictures of her doing the deed if they have any record at all of the event. I don't buy the tale that she did community service and had nothing on her record.
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