Everyone’s blameless says the Pentagon after spending 30 days looking into the reasons why Lloyd Austin nor any of his staff informed ANYONE that he had pancreatic cancer or was in the ICU for several days.
Keep in mind, this is the Secretary of Defense. A major cabinet position. Yet, the Pentagon review (of which we only get the 3-page summary) finds that there was no “ill intent” in keeping Lloyd Austin’s major medical issue very very quiet.
“[W]hen you look at the review it highlighted that there was no findings of ill will or ill intent or obfuscation, but that people, public servants, dedicated public servants, were doing what they thought was the right thing in order to continue to carry out the DoD national security mission,” Ryder said.
Austin was hospitalized on January 1 for complications related to a prostate cancer surgical procedure he had on December 22, including severe abdominal, hip and leg pain. Multiple days passed, however, before other US officials knew of Austin’s condition.
The White House was not informed of his December 22 procedure, nor was the White House told of Austin’s hospitalization until several days afterwards.
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