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NYT: Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey's many undisclosed conflicts of interests with Defense Solutions, NBC, Pentagon, DynCorp parent Veritas, Petraeus. "General McCaffrey offers a case study of the benefits that can flow from favored access: an inside track to sensitive information about strategy and tactics; insight into the priorities of ground commanders; a private channel to officials who oversaw war spending, as the Defense Solutions example shows. In that case the company has yet to win the contract it hired General McCaffrey to champion. More broadly, though, his example reveals the myriad and often undisclosed connections between the business of war and the business of covering it." McCaffrey softened his criticism of Rumsfeld's prosecution of post-war Iraq, the piece notes, when he lost access to special Pentagon briefings, and learned how to deliver a message more suitable to Rumsfeld in order to keep his lucrative access.
Update: Wired notes that journalist Sharon Weinberger first reported many elements of the McCaffrey/Defense Solutions "iron triangle" relationship here, here and here.