Posted on 01/08/2024 6:42:53 AM PST by george76
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is one of the most reclusive Pentagon chiefs in recent memory. That’s creating a major problem for him now.
Austin’s failure to inform his most senior advisers, congressional leaders and even President Joe Biden of his hospitalization last week due to complications from a medical procedure has erupted into a controversy that’s left senior White House and Pentagon officials infuriated and befuddled. Some Republicans quickly called for investigations or even for Austin to be disciplined or fired.
Advertisement Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown was not informed of Austin’s situation until Tuesday, the day after his hospitalization, a senior Defense Department official told POLITICO on Sunday. Even Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, who assumed some of his duties while he was in the hospital, did not know his whereabouts until Thursday, a second senior DOD official said after CNN first reported the news.
“My sense is his desire to be private about a routine medical procedure kind of backfired when it didn’t go as planned,” said one senior U.S. official. “He’s so loyal and duty-bound. It’s all just very odd.”
[These clowns ALL need to be on the unemployment line. ~ Beege]
Did they inform China?
I don't believe for a minute they care at all.
Not one bit.
Who are the “Advertisement Joint Chiefs”?
Everybody else in this country has to call in sick to their boss.
I think the China rep sent flowers over to the room as soon as they were notified....attached was a ‘happy health’ overly sized balloon.
You beat me to it. However, the Chinese certainly knew what was going on, long before the befuddled lunatic in the White House did.
It ain’t what it seems. I think it is a serious mental issue they are trying to keep in the closet.
Austin’s elective surgery must have been embarrassing and that is why the coverup.
Or Austin is suffering from covid vaxx jabs.
The cover-up is becoming worse day by day.
...no.....the inside scoop is that he got his annual bribe....um, er, year-end bonus from his previous employer, Ratheon, and it was so large he went into shock...
(....my severe sarcasm machine is in high gear today...!!)
That right there is scary, not in a good way.
And these are the bumbling, incompetent, dreadful frauds controlling the destiny of America. Of course none of them are as worthless as their über boss.
Odds are Brown informed China and Obozo immediately. Even if SloJoe was informed he would have forgotten about it within 5 minutes.
It ain’t what it seems. I think it is a serious mental issue they are trying to keep in the closet.
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If it is I bet it relates to the jab, i.e., stroke. How could they possibly disclose a job-related caused illness?
I don’t there’s as much of a problem with him wanting to keep an elective surgery quiet, if it was simple or routine enough that he’d be released the following day. But to not tell anyone that he was in ICU the following week for 4 days is unconscionable.
But not so loyal and duty-bound as to tell people where the h**l he was.
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