Pentagon didn't inform Biden, White House for days about Austin’s hospitalization
The news came as a shock to top staff, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
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The Secretary of Defense was hospitalized for 3 days and no one in the White House knew
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Pentagon didn't inform Biden, White House for days about Austin’s hospitalization
The news came as a shock to top staff, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Pretty wild. Maybe I'm overreacting, but seems like a potentially fireable offense to do this as SoD...especially considering ALL that's going on in the world.
Dudes get fired for less in normal corporate jobs.
OperationNumbNutts
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Agree.
Reports are saying he was in ICU
There's gotta be some kinda protocol beyond the Secretary or their ability to communicate that. I'm legit alarmed by the failure.That's his staff trying to protect the boss. His staffers in the inner circle are loyal to him first. That's how it mostly is. Because their careers are going to be in DOD not the White House, among other reasons. These agencies often treat the others as outsiders and compete, and all that.
They may even had inner friction or tension with the WH staffers and their counterparts. This is why when people claim these vast conspiracies, they don't really grasp how government works.
obviously, the SEC of Defense answers to the president, serves at the pleasure of the president or whatever that phrase it, but the reality on the ground is more complicated.
They may even had inner friction or tension with the WH staffers and their counterparts. This is why when people claim these vast conspiracies, they don't really grasp how government works.
obviously, the SEC of Defense answers to the president, serves at the pleasure of the president or whatever that phrase it, but the reality on the ground is more complicated.
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You dont fire your first african american secretary of defense in history unless you truly dont care about re election
OperationNumbNutts
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You make a good point. His team would be removed from their position alongside Austin if he was deemed unhealthy enough to do his job.
OperationNumbNutts
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So you rather have another Ruth B. Ginsburg or Dianne Feinstein type situation?
You can almost say 100% though, that he didn't order or tell his staff to alert the White House. Because dude is a general, and all his staffers are former, or current however that works at DOD --but they wouldn't disobey an order. And he wouldn't say ohhh maybe tell them, you figure it out. He's a fukking general.
King Harlem
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They probably told Biden and he forgot.......
MidwestD
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the average low information voter likely knows nothing about the position of Defense Sec., or Lloyd
Austin himself
biden must really be a weekend at bernies ass corpse at this point
