Mike Rogers launches formal inquiry into Sec. Austin’s secret hospitalization

On Tuesday, Congressman Mike Rogers, in his role as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, launched a formal inquiry into Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin’s III failure to disclose his hospitalization and incapacitation. Sec. Austin was in a hospital on January 1 for complications that resulted from treatment for prostate cancer and was admitted to intensive care. Not only was Congress and the press not informed, the Biden Administration, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and even senior staff at the Department of Defense also did not know that the top Defense official was gone and incap