Pentagon Chief Grilled Over Failure to Notify White House About Cancer Treatment
• Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin grilled by lawmakers over not informing White House about secret hospital stay for prostate cancer treatment • Austin acknowledges "breakdown in notifications" but says he never told anyone not to inform the president • Lawmakers criticize the incident as an "embarrassment," questioning accountability and relevance of Austin's position • Austin defends himself, saying he did not try to hide hospitalization and should have informed the president personally • Pentagon report clears Austin of wrongdoing, finds no "ill intent," but improvements being made to notification procedures