AP: Defense Official Resigns Over Remarks

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By PAULINE JELINEK
The Associated Press
Friday, February 2, 2007; 2:37 PM

WASHINGTON -- 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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