{"id":165426,"date":"2025-01-16T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=165426"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:52:25","slug":"awol-austin-national-security-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=165426","title":{"rendered":"AWOL Austin: National Security Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150279 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/austin-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/austin-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/austin.png 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>SECDEF Lloyd Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Watchdog: Pentagon chief\u2019s secret hospital stay \u2018unnecessarily\u2019 risky<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Noah Robertson<\/strong><br \/>\nA Pentagon watchdog found that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin needlessly risked U.S. national security by not immediately informing Congress and the White House of his hospitalization last January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we found no adverse consequences to DoD operations arising from how the hospitalizations we reviewed were handled, the risks to our national defense, including the command and control of the DoD\u2019s critical national security operations, were increased unnecessarily,\u201d wrote the Department of Defense inspector general in a new report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/01\/15\/watchdog-pentagon-chiefs-secret-hospital-stay-unnecessarily-risky\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I failed to find the term &#8220;dereliction of duty&#8221; anywhere in the article. Must be buried somewhere in the report and overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SECDEF Lloyd Austin Watchdog: Pentagon chief\u2019s secret hospital stay \u2018unnecessarily\u2019 risky By Noah Robertson A Pentagon &hellip; <a title=\"AWOL Austin: National Security Risk\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=165426\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AWOL Austin: National Security Risk<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-dick-stepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}