Weeks after controversial hospital stay, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin returns to Walter Reed
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin returned to the hospital Friday for a routine ... cancer Dec. 22 and was admitted ...
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Watchdog: Pentagon chief’s secret hospital stay ‘unnecessarily’ risky
Austin was admitted to the hospital multiple times in ... Noah Robertson is the Pentagon reporter at Defense News. He previously covered national security for the Christian Science Monitor.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin risked national security 'unnecessarily,' Inspector General says
“Although we found no adverse consequences to (Department of Defense) operations arising from how the hospitalizations we reviewed were handled, the risks to our national defense, including the ...
Sec Def Austin Took Meds That Could Impair Cognitive Function While in Sole Command of Pentagon, Watchdog Finds
A watchdog investigation into outgoing Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization in 2024 found that his secretive hospital stay resulted in heightened national security risk, in part because ...