Responding quickly to the resignation of one of their own, Silicon Valley tech GCs are defending Ron Bell, the longtime Yahoo Inc. general counsel who left the company Wednesday after an SEC filing disclosed problems with the company’s investigation of a massive 2014 data breach.

Some GCs blamed Bell’s departure on company politics and said Bell is falling on the sword for larger issues at the beleaguered company.

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