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 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 ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization ... The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Defense (OIG), in its 188-page report, criticized Austin’s team for failing ...

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 secrecy surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd ... general concluded in a report released on Wednesday. The nearly year-long review focused on three periods in late 2023 and 2024, when Austin ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will bid ... is set to return to the White House. Austin spent more than 40 years in uniform, retiring as a four-star Army general. He helmed the Pentagon throughout ...

First, the review examined the processes, procedures, and actions related to the transfer of functions and duties from Secretary of Defense Lloyd ... Austin was incapacitated or under general ...