WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report Wednesday about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to alert the White House and his senior staff about his ...

The investigation details exasperation among key aides to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he refused to disclose the extent of his medical crisis last year.

Defense Secretary Austin “unnecessarily” put America’s national security at risk when he made trips to the hospital for cancer treatment that were kept secret from the White House and other high-level ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report Wednesday about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to alert the White House and his senior staff about his hospitalization ...

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General C.Q. Brown said Austin ... in 2021 becoming the nation's first Black Secretary of Defense. During his time Austin oversaw the chaotic withdrawal from ...

The secrecy surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalizations in ... the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded in a report released on Wednesday. The nearly year-long review ...

The Pentagon inspector general found in its review of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's hospitalization last year that it "increased unnecessarily" the risks to national security, even if ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a Department of Defense Commander in Chief farewell ceremony at ...