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Breakdown: Austin Hospitalized While Biden Out of the Country on Vacation.

The isn't supposed to happen, America.

There are two people who carry the authority to give national nuclear military orders in an emergency: The President and Secretary of Defense. But there was a breakdown in that process over the holidays when Austin had complications from an elective surgery and disappeared, and Joe Biden was in the Virgin Islands on vacation. Even the National Security Advisor was in the dark. Reportedly the White House had no knowledge of Austin’s hospitalization and neither did the “Deputy Secretary of Defense” Kathleen Hicks even though Austin gave her some but not all of his duties.

Breakdown in protocol of the National Command Authority

“Defense Secretary Austin was incapacitated from New Year’s Day until yesterday when he claims to have resumed full duties. He chose to NOT notify Biden, NSA Sullivan, and intentionally keep this secret. Even Deputy SecDef, Hicks, was unaware of having assumed roles. This is a huge national security concern given increase military threats, attacks on troops abroad, and further evidence to support my impeachment articles filed for his continual dereliction of duty. I ask @HASCRepublicans and @SpeakerJohnson to support further inquiry and investigate reasoning for such failures by the SecDef.” Rep Cory Mills, FL, and Combat veteran Jan 7, 2023

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And the U.S. military on Thursday, January 4, conducted a strike against an Iran-backed militia targeting U.S. forces in Iraq — which raised questions as to who exactly ordered the strike. According to CNN, the strike was “preauthorized.”

Members of Congress are now demanding to know who was in charge of military orders during Austin’s hospitalization.

“When one of the country’s two National Command Authorities is unable to perform their duties, military families, Members of Congress, and the American public deserve to know the full extent of the circumstances,” said Sen. Roger Wicker (MS), top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), which has oversight of the Pentagon.

“The Secretary of Defense is the key link in the chain of command between the president and the uniformed military, including the nuclear chain of command, when the weightiest of decisions must be made in minutes,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), another member of SASC, said, adding, “There must be consequences for this shocking breakdown.” Breitbart

Austin has supposedly returned to his duties.  But the secrecy involved in this incident is dangerous to our National Security.

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Hicks, by the way, was the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Obama administration and was reportedly on the committee to stop “misinformation” during the Covid pandemic. Odd that SecDef left her out of the communication loop. The Pentagon tried to cover up the incident by saying their person who was supposed to notify the White House was sick. This is sick, alright. And it’s bigger than one or two people.

The Pentagon didn’t bother to tell Biden, and the SecDef didn’t bother to let the second in command know, a situation that literally breaks the National Command Authority.

No one knows what surgery Austin had in the first place. No one knows how dire his situation was that landed him in ICU for a few days. We have an elderly President who is easily confused and his wife has to lead him around, and a Secretary of Defense who got sick enough that he was hospitalized and no one knew about it. This breakdown could cause the United States to be embroiled in WWIII in the blink of an eye.

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Faye Higbee

Faye Higbee is the columnist manager for Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. She has been writing at Conservative Firing Line since 2013 as well. She is also a published author.

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