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Taguba Report Annex 50: Testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Robert P. Walters Jr, Commander, 165th Military Intelligence Battalion

Feb. 14, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 258
Lieutenant Colonel Robert P. Walters Jr was responsible for augmenting the force protectionand assisting Col. Pappas at Abu Ghraib. His impressions of the prison were as follows; "To be perfectly candid, Sir, the 800th MP Brigade were out of site out of mind, except when an issue came up, and BG Karpinski would call COL Pappas". He continued "There was [no] discipline. There were no uniform standards. There was no saluting...Soldiers saluting are an indicator of a well-trained highly disciplined unit". On detainee abuse LTC Walters stated "the resident CID agent there stopped me, and he said, "I've got this CD, and it's got some pictures, that are fairly explicit. It looks like detainee abuse." I told him to go see COL Pappas, immediately". Then he noted "I asked if he (the CID agent) saw Col. Pappas, and he said he got it".