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January 20, 2011

Ex-Military Officers Resign Pentagon Advisory Posts Rather than Admit Private Ties 
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In military news, seven retired admirals and generals have resigned from
advisory roles with the Pentagon rather than comply with new rules on
reporting outside income to avoid a conflict of interest. The former
officers were among a group of 158 Pentagon officials identified in an
investigation by the newspaper USA Today. Eighty percent of the
so-called "mentors" were found to have ties to military contractors that
they previously were not required to publicly disclose. A Boston Globe
study early this month found that 80 percent of retiring three- and
four-star officers went to work as consultants or defense executives
from 2004 to 2008.



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