The Pentagon’s cover-up about the US Defense Secretary’s surgery
| The Pentagon's three-day delay in announcing the news of the hospitalization and surgery of the US Defense Minister and the ignorance of the country's senior officials was accompanied by many criticisms. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the American media strongly criticized the Pentagon’s secrecy in announcing the hospitalization and surgery of Defense Minister Lloyd Austin, 3 days late.
The “Associated Press” news agency, quoting American officials, wrote: “Members of Congress and even Pentagon officials did not know about the hospitalization of the Minister of Defense for several days.”
The American media considered this concealment by the Pentagon as a sign of extreme lack of transparency about Austin’s disease and said that it contradicts the usual practice of the American government. When did the main American officials learn about the hospitalization of the Minister of Defense? Even many senior Pentagon officials did not know about Austin’s surgery in the hospital until Friday.” Monday at Walter Reed Medical Services Center. (more details)
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