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Pentagon Big Mouth Resigns
A senior Pentagon official resigned Friday over controversial remarks in which he criticized lawyers who represent terrorism suspects, the Defense Department said.Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said Charles ''Cully'' Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, told him on Friday that he had made his own decision to resign and was not asked to leave by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Stimson said he was leaving because of the controversy over a radio interview in which he said he found it shocking that lawyers at many of the nation's top law firms represent detainees held at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.
''He believed it hampered his ability to be effective in this position,'' Whitman said of the backlash to Stimson's comments.
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Comments (6)
scarshapedstar wrote on February 2, 2007 5:42 PM:Good riddance, and don't forget to take your brown shirt with you.
Richard L. Adlof wrote on February 2, 2007 8:06 PM:I wonder how this sort of thing is going to effect the President's numbers for jobs created. Boy, has the worm turned for knee-jerk right-wingnuts with loose lips.
Hopefully, the only job Stimson will be ever able to get in the future is defending detainees PRO BONO.
Britisher wrote on February 2, 2007 8:14 PM:How effing noble of Stimson!
He couldn't be effective anymore in quietly subverting basic legal principles and the Constitution?
Personally I'm shocked and impressed that he caved so quickly--but I'm sure it wasn't public outrage but the threat from Bar Association vensure that would significantly impact his continued employment that did the trick.
A bit lacking the courage of his "convictions" I'd say.
Make a note TPM: I predict he'll stop pretending to be a lawyer and will shortly serve as legal counsel or some such for a struggling Republican politician.
Mark Richards wrote on February 2, 2007 9:30 PM:Perhaps this same technique might work for the rest of the current mal-administration, too.
Imagine if, one by one, they just *resigned*.
(Dreaming on).
Matt Clarke wrote on February 3, 2007 11:15 AM:That Stimson resigned is a happy sign of the times! It means those who blatantly preach and seek even to enforce corporate totalitarianism are on the run!
See ragm.com for The Curse of the Corporate State, by the corpo governance guru RAG Monk, who also testified for the abolition of corporate personhood and political speech, which itself requires re-framing of myths in our constitutional history a la POCLAD.org. Each site is required reading for RE-framing RE-thinkers.
JD21 wrote on February 3, 2007 3:39 PM:Charles "Cully" Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, is gone gone gone for his outrageous threats to try to scare off law firms from representing detainees. At least one idiot in the Bush Administration is being held accountable for his outrageous statements and actions.
These morons in the Bush Administration are nasty and way out of their league. A dangerous recipe, as we have seen . . .
Maybe the 2006 mid-term elections marked the beginning of a new era of accountability. Maybe Bush will be held accountable for all his lawbreaking in the illegal secret spying program and torture, and his moronic Seventh Surge (it sounds kind of like a religious cult, which you kind of have to be in to support Bush these days).