The Pentagon's Inspector General found that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks mishandled protocols during Austin's secretive 2024 hospitalization for prostate cancer treatment. While the report states there were no adverse consequences to operations, it highlights that risks to national defense were unnecessarily increased due to the lack of transparency surrounding Austin's health.
FILE - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a joint news conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo, Sunday, July 28, 2024. The Pentagon ’s Inspector General found that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks botched protocols during his 2024 secretive hospitalization for prostate cancer treatment.
I want to be crystal clear, we did not handle this right and I did not handle this right. I should’ve told the President about my cancer diagnosis, and I should have told my team and the American public," Austin said at a Feb. 1 briefing.“Lloyd Austin, the secretary, went AWOL, he disappeared for days. Would that occur on your watch?" Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., asked during the hearing.
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