Pentagon, Lloyd Austin

Pentagon investigation raises new concerns about Austin's 2024 hospitalization
An investigation released on Wednesday into U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret 2024 hospitalization found his desire for privacy drove notification failures inside the government, and that he took medication that could have affected his cognitive functions while still in sole command.
Pentagon investigation raises new concerns about Austin’s 2024 hospitalisation
Medication could have affected his cognitive functions while still in sole command. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Pentagon inspector general faults Austin for hospitalization secrecy
The investigation details exasperation among key aides to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he refused to disclose the extent of his medical crisis last year.
Pentagon watchdog: Austin's hospitalization "unnecessarily" increased risks
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for two weeks at the start of 2024 for complications arising from surgery to treat prostate cancer.
Defense Secretary Austin’s secrecy around his hospitalizations increased the risks to national security, watchdog says
The secrecy surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalizations in late 2023 and early 2024 “increased unnecessarily” the risks to US national security, the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded in a report released on Wednesday.
Watchdog: Pentagon chief’s secret hospital stay ‘unnecessarily’ risky
A Pentagon watchdog found no harm to U.S. national security but said the incident raised the odds of such issues.
Watchdog: Austin Needlessly Risked National Security
The Pentagon's internal watchdog says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin "unnecessarily" increased risks to national security by keeping his illness and hospitalizations secret in late 2023 and early 2024.
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