Guantanamo Remarks Cost Policy Chief His Job

CNN ^ | 2/2/07

[steve-b]

The Pentagon's man in charge of handling the department's policy on detainees from the war on terrorism has resigned, Defense Department officials said Friday.

Charles "Cully" Stimson resigned Thursday after making controversial remarks last month about law firms that represent terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said.

Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, submitted his resignation to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who accepted it, the officials said.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Stimson resigned because "the controversy surrounding him ... was hampering his ability to be effective in his current position."...

[kinoxi]

I don't see the problem with calling out the people who are aligning themselves with terrorists.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"where have all the men gone?"

[HaveHadEnough]

Even terrorists like Timothy McVeigh are entitled to a lawyer.

Stimson should know better.

[JCEccles]

So, non-citizen terrorists outside the US have the same constitutional rights that you and I have?

[generalhammond]

"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,"

As Jack Nicholson might say - "you can't handle the truth". Are lawyers protected species now in the mould of gays, blacks, Isalamists and femenazis. I suppose nothing hurts a lawyer more than threatening his repayments on the new Porsche.

[HaveHadEnough]

McVeigh was an enemy combatant, as far as I am concerned.

These people, as did McVeigh, have lawyers. The question is whether the government should be calling for boycotts of lawyers who represent enemy combatants.

And this has little to do with non-citizens outside the U.S. A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled President Bush has the authority to designate U.S. citizens as "enemy combatants" and detain them in military custody if they are deemed a threat to national security. This has to do with us.

[Cicero]

It's funny how Democrats reward their staff for supporting the party line, but Republicans punish them. Do they really think it will make their enemies respect them more?