{"id":22831,"date":"2024-01-19T04:49:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22831"},"modified":"2024-01-19T04:49:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:49:29","slug":"the-u-s-secretary-of-defense-was-summoned-to-congress-to-testify-about-hospital-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22831","title":{"rendered":"The U. S. Secretary of Defense was summoned to Congress to testify about hospital admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WASHINGTON (Sputnik) &#8211; US House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers in a letter demanded US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appear before the panel for a testimony to discuss the lack of transparency of his hospitalization earlier this month.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Your unwillingness to provide candid and complete answers necessitates calling a Full Committee hearing on February 14, 2024, where the Committee expects to hear your direct testimony regarding decisions made to withhold information from the President, Congress, and the American people,&#8221; Rogers said in the letter on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The chairman clarified that although Austin did respond to some of his questions on this matter, several others were not addressed. Rogers highlighted that he was &#8220;alarmed&#8221; that Austin refused to answer whether he instructed his staff to not inform President Joe Biden or anyone else about his hospitalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Congressman asked Austin to provide a written response to additional questions about his failure to disclose his hospitalization by February 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Austin was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240111\/pentagon-inspector-general-says-launching-review-of-austins-hospitalization-1116121190.html\">hospitalized on January 1<\/a>&nbsp;due to an infection, following prostate cancer surgery in late December and has not been in office since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The US Defense Department failed to communicate Austin\u2019s hospitalization to the White House for several days, prompting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240107\/criticism-over-secrecy-of-pentagon-chiefs-hospitalization-mounts-as-austin-takes-responsibility-1116025547.html\">a Pentagon Inspector General probe<\/a>&nbsp;and bipartisan calls for him to leave his leadership position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240119\/us-defense-secretary-summoned-to-testify-before-congress-about-hospitalization-1116259887.html\">Sputnikglobe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Sputnik) &#8211; US House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers in a letter demanded US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appear before the panel for a testimony to discuss the lack of transparency of his hospitalization earlier this month. &#8220;Your unwillingness to provide candid and complete answers necessitates calling a Full Committee hearing on February 14, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1232,4980,24350,24082,23901,10442],"class_list":["post-22831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-congress","tag-hospitalization","tag-secretary-of-defense","tag-summons","tag-testimony","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22833,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22831\/revisions\/22833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}