U.S. general in shoplifting controversy.

[playahata1]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/02/eveningnews/main620801.shtml

(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.
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[sandnsea]

1. Oh my god

If they had to go this low on this woman, she's right and she's going to sing, sing, sing. The Republican Party is absolutely morally bankrupt. Get that in the lexicon, morally bankrupt.

[ElementaryPenguin]

2. WTF?? Just when you thought it couldn't get anymore absurd...

:crazy:

[linazelle]

3. It never happened huh?

Hey, I believe her. :shrug: She said she wasn't in charge of the prisona abuse--didn't know a thing about it. Very credible woman. :eyes: