WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin returned to the hospital Friday for a routine ... cancer Dec. 22 and was admitted ...
A Pentagon watchdog found that Defense Secretary Lloyd ... The investigation did not find the hospital stays, or delays in announcing them, harmed U.S. national security. But the process posed ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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.