Exhibit 854 ยท Inspector general report
Review of Matters Related to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Retired Military Analyst Outreach Activities, DODIG-2012-025
A preponderance of evidence indicates that one RMA stopped receiving invitations because he was a critic.
Reevaluation after the IG withdrew its first report (IE-2009-004, 14 January 2009). The review covered more than 25,000 documents and interviews with 63 of 74 analysts and 65 DOD officials. It found the outreach program, which began in 2002 and ran until February 2008, complied with DOD policy; found that one analyst stopped receiving invitations because he was a critic; identified 43 analysts with defense contractor affiliations and found no financial benefit through those affiliations among the 35 it asked; and recommended a written plan for such groups.
- Source
- Department of Defense Office of Inspector General
- Date
- 21 November 2011
- Quoted from
- Introduction and Summary, Review Results, p. 2
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://media.defense.gov/2011/Nov/21/2001712365/-1/-1/1/RMATheFinalReport112111redacted.pdf
- Archived
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251208011917/https://media.defense.gov/2011/Nov/21/2001712365/-1/-1/1/RMATheFinalReport112111redacted.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
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