Austin’s cover-up prompted the Pentagon to apologize

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, “Patrick Ryder”, the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense of the Pentagon, on Monday, due to the lack of clarification and more information about the recent hospitalization of “Lloyd Austin” The US Defense Minister apologized in the hospital, which the White House learned about three days after his hospitalization.

According to “ABC News” Austin underwent a medical procedure on Dec. 22 and went home a day later. However, on Jan. 1, he was transferred to Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Maryland while experiencing severe pain, Ryder said in a statement.

Ryder stated that even he found out about Austin being hospitalized on Tuesday, January 2. Meanwhile, the White House found out about the incident late and on Thursday. to get the necessary information about the incident and that’s why the notification was late. We try to learn from this experience and perform as expected of us. He knew about Austin’s hospitalization when he went to the camera for a briefing, but he said that he did not follow up on Austin’s condition.

He also stated that The Pentagon is considering a plan to see how to notify the White House and Congress of such cases sooner. According to him, even Austin’s deputy, Kathleen Hicks, learned about this story on Thursday. In addition, it took almost a whole day to contact Congress to inform and publish a press release on Friday evening. The late notification of this issue to the White House and the US Congress has raised questions inside and outside the Biden administration about why such an important issue was notified so late.

According to Ryder Austin, he was admitted to the intensive care center of the hospital on Monday and his condition is improving, however, a specific time for his discharge from the hospital was not given and the information about the duration of hospitalization He and his discharge will be updated.

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