Ex-Gen. Karpinski of Abu Ghraib collaborates with terrorist lawyer

The disgraced former US Army general in charge of Abu Ghraib prison during the prisoner abuse scandal is now collaborating with radical attorneys who specialize in defending terrorists.

Former brigadier general Janis Karpinski is working with terrorist attorney Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights to try Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a foreign court.

Karpinski and Ratner appeared in Berlin today to announce a suit alleging that Rumsfeld is guilty fo committing war crimes in Iraq.

Ratner is the lead defense attorney for captured terrorists being detained by the US military in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The self-styled "civil rights" activist has spent nearly 40 years in defense of political extremists, assassins, bombers, spies and others in the name of "constitutional rights."

Over the past four decades, Ratner's organization has provided legal defense for US Marine turncoat Clayton Lonetree, who spied for the Soviet KGB; for convicted spies for the intelligence services of Vietnam and Cuba; and for a range of terrorists, including the Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army, FALN and Macheteros of Puerto Rico; the Baader-Meinhof Gang/Red Army Faktion of Germany; and in recent years, Islamist terrorists and their support groups.

Karpinski was demoted to colonel for dereliction of duty, misleading federal investigators, failure to obey a lawful order and shoplifting. She claims that she's a scapegoat.

So now the disgraced former general is now on foreign soil collaborating with the world's most notorious terrorist defense lawyer, allowing herself to be used in a propaganda campaign to discredit the United States and undermine the war on terror.