Posted on 01/06/2024 4:18:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Pentagon did not tell President Joe Biden and other top officials about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization for three days, three U.S. officials said.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan and other senior White House aides didn’t know of Austin’s Jan. 1 hospitalization until the Defense Department sent over word Jan. 4, two other U.S. officials said. Sullivan informed Biden shortly after DOD’s Thursday notification.
The officials said it was highly unlikely that Austin conveyed word to Biden privately before Sullivan’s briefing. “If Jake didn’t know, no way the president knew,” one of them said. “Who would have told him of Austin’s condition if not Jake? And if someone did tell the president, Jake would’ve been his first call.”
All officials and other people who spoke for this story were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.
The news of Austin’s situation came as a shock to all White House staff as they were unaware the Pentagon boss was dealing with complications following an elective medical procedure, the officials said. National Security Council staffers were surprised it took the Pentagon so long to let them know of Austin’s status. The Pentagon didn’t make the information public until Friday evening, notifying Congress about 15 minutes before releasing a public statement.
“This should not have happened this way,” said one of the U.S. officials. The NSC and Pentagon declined comment.
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Well, now we know why California just issued its 1st “ebony alert.”
Lloyd Austin and Joe Biden are both useless. The Pentagon runs without them.
It’s ok. Dr Jill was the attending physician as well as sec def.
This is my world is a career limiting event. Time to fire this yutz immediately. In a time of global tension the sec def should be no more than a stones throw from the situation room and that should be only while sleeping. This reveals how unsafe we are. Dementia in Oval Office. Elective surgeries during a period of heightened alert. Who the actual f*** is running the country. Time for congress to impeach this guy. And the inquiry would demand what the surgery is. I want to know what was so damn important that sec def was out of mind for this long.
This is dereliction of duty. Plain and simple.
Jill..
Elective procedure? hmmmmmm Implants?
AWOL…..
The Deep State.
Is he trans gendering, or what?
That's what the Soviets would "say".
No one would have ever noticed, except the cashier at Golden Corral realized he had missed the buffet a couple days in a row.
No one would have ever noticed, except the cashier at Golden Corral realized he had missed the buffet a couple days in a row.
I would agree, sadly.
There it is. That Mystic Knights of the Sea getup. “The kingfish gets Andy to sign up to fight for Ukraine. Hilarity ensues.”
“So who’s running the show at the White House?”
Sure isn’t President Magoo.
Another one from the "My Ass" desk.
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