DOD Policy on Ethics Pledge & Holdovers

Thanks to Paul Bergstrand for alerting us to a Government Executive story about the Department of Defense's application of the Obama ethics pledge to Bush Administration holdovers. A senior DOD official explained in an April 7 e-mail to them:

Those who choose not to sign the ethics pledge and leave before April 30, 2009 (or those who choose to sign the pledge and are replaced after April 30, 2009), will be asked to submit their resignations, and the department will treat their separations as involuntary.