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By Tom Vanden Brook - USA Today
Posted : Thursday Oct 14, 2010 8:16:40 EDT

WASHINGTON — After pressure from two key senators, the Pentagon has reversed course and will require that the retired generals and admirals it hires as consultants file public, not confidential, financial disclosure statements, according to letters from Congress and the Defense Department.

Senators Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz., the chairman and ranking member on the Armed Services Committee, told the Pentagon that "senior mentors exercise a level of ... influence" that demands public disclosure. They wrote that if the Pentagon resisted, they would propose legislation mandating it.

Leigh Bradley, a top Pentagon lawyer, responded to their letter by seeking a ruling from the Office of Government Ethics to require public disclosures. Among the reasons she cited for greater transparency is the mentors' ability to affect Pentagon policy ... Read the rest of the story here.

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Do you agree with requirement? Should this kind of transparency happened before?