Larry DiRita Quotes (7 Quotes)

I don't doubt every colonel wishes he had more in his area, but the decisions about how troops are (deployed) are made by the commanders above them.

Assertions apparently being made in the latest New Yorker article on Abu Ghraib and the abuse of Iraqi detainees are outlandish, conspiratorial, and filled with error and anonymous conjecture.

It's what he does. He injects urgency, he asks questions and he gets people thinking about things and that's what this memo, hopefully, will do. It appears to have had that effect.

People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now

What he's doing is elevating the perspective of the leadership of this department and asking 'I don't know the answers to these questions, but they're on my mind and I want them on your mind too.'

He has a sense that public vetting of this information is likely to be as good an astringent as any other process we could develop.

In many cases, we are holding people accountable, prior to people even knowing that there was a case. And that's not anybody's fault. That's just the way the military justice system operates.