A senior official at the Pentagon created a firestorm of reaction – both in Connecticut and nationally – in suggesting that corporations boycott law firms whose attorneys represent U.S. military detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Charles “Cully” Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs and himself an attorney, said in a recent radio interview that companies might want to consider taking their business to other law firms that do not represent suspected terrorists.

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