'She Was Following Orders'

I know your client and the other soldiers are being held in Baghdad. Where exactly are they staying?

They all live in the same tent in Camp Victory [a military installation]. They were separated from the other members of the brigade. Spc. Sivits was moved last Saturday [May 1] ... but he left a goodbye note for everybody. It was a goodbye note that said he was moving and I think he asked Graner to pack up his stuff. There's no animosity between them and no back biting.

Are they allowed to socialize with other people in Camp Victory?

Absolutely. They were in same tent compound as I was, tent 81. You hear rockets and mortars.

How are other U.S. soldiers treating them?

As a matter of fact, after the "60 minutes II" [segment about prisoner abuse] came on last Thursday, no one knew it was going to happen, so Friday I was sitting in the mess hall--remember there's an 8 hour gap in time between the United States and Iraq--and CNN plays in the mess hall, and it was a perfect opportunity to ask the people I was sitting with what they thought of it all....And the reaction of the soldiers was, 'What do they expect? We're at war!' If you're trying to get information from terrorists, you can't be asking "pretty please.' So they're not upset at all, and they see these people all the time. There hasn't been anything--no threats, no violence, no 'God, we're going to get killed because of you.' I guess it's because the military is just so different from civilians. One thing that's really impressive is the camaraderie of the troops over there.