Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was back in the office Monday, exactly four weeks after he was rushed to the hospital with complications from prostate cancer surgery that he kept from his colleagues - and President Biden - for days.
Secrecy appeared to be Austin's top priority, with an aide asking 911 operators to have the ambulance arrive without running its lights or sirens. Austin quietly transferred his authority to Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks on Jan. 2 - without telling her or any of his other Pentagon colleagues of the reason behind it - but failed to tell the White House that he had done so. That didn't happen until Jan. 4, when Biden was notified of Austin's hospitalization.
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