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This International Dateline episode includes three segments: Abu Ghraib - A Torturer's Tale, Janis Karpinski Interview, and Giant Squid.  

Abu Ghraib - A Torturer's Tale  
Last year Olvia Rousset spent time in Jordan with two former Abu Ghraib prisoners, Haj Ali and Abu Maan. Looking at the photos that came out in 2004, they described the techniques used against them and talked about the guards that terrorized them most. In this episode, Dateline goes to the other side of the wire by penetrating the lives of two American soldiers who were guards at Abu Ghraib.

Javal Davis speaks candidly about his part in the abuses shown in the notorious photos, his horror at seeing his face on CNN, and the subsequent six months in prison. Ken Davis, not related to Javal, is traumatized by his experiences at Abu Ghraib. He's angry that efforts to raise the alarm with his superiors fell on deaf ears.  Both Javal and Ken speak to Olivia about the harsh conditions inside and outside Abu Ghraib for soldiers as well as prisoners. Javal speaks of an insidious culture that was all too easy to slip into and blames his superiors up the chain of command for creating it.

Janis Karpinski Interview 
All this build-up of gruesome detail about events at Abu Ghraib raises the ultimate question - who bears the responsibility for what went on there? How far up the chain of command do we need to go? The commander of the US military police at Abu Ghraib at the time of the torture and abuse was Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski. She was responsible for 16 prisons in Iraq, but following the photo scandal and a subsequent army inquiry, Janis Karpinski was relieved of her command and demoted. She's since left the US military and written a book, in which she claims that far from stopping with her, the buck goes all the way to the top - to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and maybe even the White House. Dateline's George Negus speaks with Janis Karpinski, via satellite from Savannah, Georgia.

Giant Squid

According to juicy folklore and loose legend, for centuries, the inky waters of our deepest oceans have been home to that most mysterious of marine creatures - the giant squid. For 30 years, Dr. Steve O'Shea, a marine biologist from New Zealand, has been chasing these elusive creatures, almost obsessively, and Dateline caught up with him, hard at what's clearly become his life's work. 

About International Dateline 

SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.