An investigation released on Wednesday into U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret 2024 hospitalization found his desire for privacy drove notification failures inside the government, and ...

The Pentagon’s inspector general is launching a review of whether the Pentagon has the appropriate policies in place to ensure an effective transfer of power and duties, following Defense ...

Austin’s recent secretive hospitalization has been at the center of controversy. The Defense Department inspector general said Thursday that it will investigate the mishandling of Defense ...

A Pentagon review of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s delayed notification of his January hospitalization found there was no deliberate attempt to “obfuscate” the situation but did make a ...

No one will be reprimanded for keeping Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospital stays a secret -- including the secretary himself or his chief of staff -- after an internal Pentagon review of the ...

The watchdog probe will "examine the roles, processes, procedures, responsibilities and actions related to the Secretary of Defense's hospitalization in December 2023 and January 2024," Maj. Gen ...

While the Pentagon has said some key officials were informed of Austin's hospitalization Jan. 2, including his chief of staff Kelly Magsamen, it has acknowledged that the White House, Hicks and ...

A watchdog investigation into outgoing Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization in 2024 found that his secretive hospital stay resulted in heightened national security risk, in part ...

The inspector general’s investigation into Austin’s handling of his illness and hospitalization took a year to complete and was released just days before Austin is set to leave office on Jan. 20.

The Associated Press reported that Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was not notified four days after Austin’s hospitalization. At the time, she was on leave, raising questions about ...

The Pentagon watchdog’s scathing 188-page review scrutinizes the secretary’s hospitalizations in December 2023, January 2024 and February 2024 and puts the blame on Austin’s team for ...