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The Pentagon's financial disclosure rules for highly paid retired generals and the admiral, who is advising the weakened military, documents show.The so-called senior counselors do not meet the financial or business relationship with the public directive issued by Deputy Defense Minister William Lynn on July 8, should be published. This too was originally requested the Minister for Defence Robert Gates on 1 April, when a new policy for the mentors' incentive to reduce and eliminate conflict of interest issue.Lynn Directive does not change the policy, the Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said in an e-mail. Whitman noted that Gates' rule says nothing of the public accounts.

However, the fact sheet by the Pentagon that the policy in April, Gates, that mentors more than 60 days a year paid more than $ 119.554, "public financial disclosure statement. EA file confidential financial disclosure report."The Pentagon based on the change to private financial information on a proposal from the Office of Government Ethics, said Whitman. The private revelations defines the conflict, "he said.The ethics office declined comment.Members of Congress say the change removes the transparency and disclosure laws is mandatory.House Administrative Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns, DN.Y., urged the Pentagon, retired generals and admirals that included consultants, as publicly stated that the business relationship.