Janis Karpinski is a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer who gained prominence during her time as a commander at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Her leadership was under scrutiny following the prisoner abuse scandal that erupted in 2004. Karpinski became a central figure in the investigations, facing allegations of failing to supervise her troops effectively. Although she was later demoted, she argued that she was made a scapegoat for a larger systemic failure within...