Mike Rogers requests Sec. Austin testify over secretive hospitalization

Congressman Mike Rogers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, on Thursday sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, requesting that the embattled defense secretary testify before the Committee on his failure to disclose an emergency hospitalization that began last month. “When you and I last spoke, you promised full transparency into questions regarding the secrecy of your recent hospitalization,” Chairman Rogers wrote in the letter. “While you did respond to some of my questions I had for you, a concerning number of questions were not addressed,” Rogers (R-Saks) sa