We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.

Thankfully we don't have any report but that might be as simple as soldiers being told what they can say to the media and what they can't say to the media,

[While accepting her] share of the responsibility ... were not the work of a few wayward soldiers and their female leader.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.

I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.