Cully Stimson, purveyor of ugly innuendo, bows out

what i want to know is, even though he apologized and his remarks were disavowed by the defense department, how much of what he said is common and acceptable conversation in the higher reaches of the defense department...?

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.

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Stimson drew outrage from the legal community -- and a disavowal from the Defense Department -- for his Jan. 11 comments, in which he also suggested some attorneys were being untruthful about doing the work free of charge and instead were ''receiving moneys from who knows where.''

He also said companies might want to consider taking their legal business to other firms that do not represent suspected terrorists.

''I think, quite honestly, when corporate CEOs see that those firms are representing the very terrorists who hit their bottom line back in 2001, those CEOs are going to make those law firms choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms,'' Stimson told Federal News Radio.

because i simply can't believe he came up with such viciousness on his own and obviously he didn't feel any constraint in uttering it in a public forum, all of which implies such opinions are not considered extreme in the halls of the pentagon...

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