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Post by bot on Dec 26, 2010 19:38:13 GMT -5
"Rent-a-General" Business Thrives The Boston Globe analyzed the career paths of 750 of the highest ranking generals and admirals who retired during the last two decades and found that from 2004 through 2008, 80 percent of retiring three- and four-star officers went to work as consultants or defense executives. Key finding: "The generals are, in many cases, recruited for private sector roles well before they retire, raising questions about their independence and judgment while still in uniform. The Pentagon is aware and even supports this practice." In fact, such "apparent conflicts are a routine fact of life at the lucrative nexus between the defense procurement system, which spends hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and the industry that feasts on those riches. And almost nothing is ever done about it." politicalwire.com/archives/2010/12/26/rent-a-general_business_thrives.html
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