If the idea behind making a late Friday announcement regarding the hospitalization of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was to aid in it quietly being forgotten over the weekend, chalk it up as a colossal failure. Since the news first came to light, the story has only mushroomed and raised myriad questions regarding the Pentagon chain of command, communication in the Biden administration, and where the heck those in-charge “adults” are.
On Tuesday afternoon, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby took to the podium in the White House Briefing Room and addressed several rather pointed questions regarding Austin’s condition and (mis)handling of the whole affair.
Kirby started off by acknowledging that Austin’s failure to apprise the White House of his cancer diagnosis was “not optimal.”
“The president didn’t learn about this for a month after…
