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DoD News Release.
Meanwhile, a senior defense official announced today that Charles "Cully" Stimson, deputy assistant secretary for detainee affairs, has resigned, effective today. Gates accepted Stimson's resignation yesterday, Bryan Whitman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, told reporters today.Stimson offered his resignation in light of controversy over statements regarding lawyers who represent detainees, Whitman said. Stimson's statements were seen as urging law firms to stop representing Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Whitman said Stimson believed the controversy "hampered his ability to be effective" in his post and resigned because he put the Defense Department's interests above his own.
Whitman praised Stimson's "diligent" work regarding detainee affairs. He cited his efforts to increase transparency and strengthen relationships with other non-governmental organizations and other groups, particularly the International Committee of the Red Cross.
If only we could get elected officials to do the same thing...
Another interesting thing is - the resignation mostly seems to be of interest to lawyers, as far as blogs go.
I'm off to a militaria show.
Oh, and we had an inmate escape from the Federal Prison. Wheee! -the Armorer
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Here's some light Saturday reading... Non-binding Cartoon Surge. - FbL
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Speaking of "non-binding", a little analysis of how the Democrats AND Republicans are both trying to have their cake and eat it too.
*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.
Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.
Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is*
The UAVs we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.
I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to. It's also an open trackback, so if (Don Surber uses it this way a lot) someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone".
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