Despite deadline, data on mentors still missingBy Tom Vanden Brook - USA Today
Posted : Thursday Jul 8, 2010 21:53:35 EDT
The Pentagon can’t say how many retired generals and admirals who work as advisers have been hired as government employees despite an order for the information from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, according to interviews with military officials.
On April 1, Gates told the military services they had 90 days in which to restrict the pay for the retired officers, known as senior mentors, and to require them to disclose their outside business ties. Congress is moving to put Gates’ order into law.Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn will require the services to tell the Pentagon by July 31 how many mentors have been hired as government employees, Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said Thursday.
“We don’t have a good sense” of compliance with the policy, Whitman said. “That’s why we want to take the step to evaluate what the compliance has been.”
Whitman said the 90-day deadline was not firm. Gates’ order told the services to abide by it “to the maximum extent practicable,” he said.
unhappycamper comment: This is rich. The Pentagon can tell me what Ali ate for breakfast in Mosul last Friday, and doesn't have a clue what retired senior military officers are doing now? 
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
