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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 represe
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stanley isolierkanne ash; 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 b
stanley uk usiness 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.Stimson public Acgt World s Fastest Train Hits 500km/h, And People Aboard Look Pretty Chill
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