A
Terrorist in the Defense Department
January 17, 2007
This was part of an article about a
U.S. Defense Department lawyer on January 13th:
Charles "Cully" Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for
detainee affairs, said in a radio interview last week that companies might
want to consider taking their business to other firms that do not represent
suspected terrorists.
And
Stimson listed the names of more than a dozen major firms he suggested
should be boycotted.
"And 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 said.
Pentagon disavows comment on detainees,
by John Heilprin, Associated Press Writer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070113/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/pentagon_detainees
Of course, the official response was
that the lawyer was not talking for the Defense Department or the Bush
Administration. Yeah, right. Why didn’t anyone within the Administration
condemn his remarks and discipline him? He made an unapologetic apology
afterwards which did nothing to make the situation better. His continued
employment suggests complicity or approval by the Administration.
His comments were shameful and
outright intimidating to anyone who wants to provide legal assistance to
detainees or to anyone the Bush Administration designates as a terrorist. It
dismisses our democratic system and his comments are un-American.
Mr. Stimson needs to re-read the US
Constitution and the Bill of Rights and resign his position. He has
certainly forgotten the basics of an American democracy something he is
supposed to uphold.
Mr. Stimson needs to be fired if
does not resign. He is not fit to be a lawyer of any kind. Better yet his
comments must be condemned as a terrorist act and he needs to be detained as
a terrorist indefinitely like hundreds of others Bush has identified as U.S.
enemies.
