US spokesman Crowley quits
Published:Monday | March 14, 2011 | 3:31 PM
US state department spokesman PJ Crowley has resigned after describing the treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks as stupid.
Crowley was speaking to an audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about new media and foreign policy when he made the controversial remarks.
Crowley says he’s taking responsibility for the impact of his remarks about Private Bradley Manning.
Private Manning is being held in solitary confinement at a maximum security US military jail.
He has been on suicide watch at the Quantico marine base in Virginia and is shackled at all times.
He faces 34 charges relating to the leaking of 720,000 diplomatic and military documents.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she accepts Crowley's resignation with regret.