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.

"The Deputy Assistant Secretary did the right thing." said Tom Bolt, President of the American Counsel Association, the oldest association of independent law firms.  "But this does not end here, I am confident that when the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates convenes later this month that we will address the issue of detainees, their right to counsel and other issues relative to the proper administration of justice." Bolt said.

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