The senior Pentagon official who criticized lawyers who represent terrorism suspects has quit.
Charles ''Cully'' Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, told associates 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 and implied that they were being paid by enemies of the U.S.
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