{"id":6795,"date":"2016-02-19T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2016-02-19T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T01:39:08","slug":"the-revolving-door-from-the-pentagon-to-the-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6795","title":{"rendered":"The Revolving Door from the Pentagon to the Private Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/pages\/strategic-maneuvers-generals-defense-department-revolving-door\">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>This report and short video, released in partnership with Brave New Foundation, reveal the extent of the Pentagon\u2019s revolving door phenomenon, in which retired high-ranking generals and admirals cash in on their years of military experience by taking lucrative jobs with the defense industry. <br \/>&nbsp;CREW found 70 percent of the 108 three-and-four star generals and admirals who retired between 2009 and 2011 took jobs with defense contractors or consultants.  In at least a few cases, these retirees have continued to advise the Department of Defense \u2014 all while on the payroll of the defense industry.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: This report and short video, released in partnership with Brave New Foundation, reveal the extent of the Pentagon\u2019s revolving door phenomenon, in which retired high-ranking generals and admirals cash in on their years of military experience by taking lucrative jobs with the defense industry. &nbsp;CREW found 70 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6796,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}