Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin broke a long public silence this week to say that Pete Hegseth’s removal of more than a dozen senior military officers “concerns” him, a carefully staged critique from a Biden-era Pentagon chief whose own tenure was hardly a model of transparency or accountability.
Austin made the remarks in what The Hill described as his first televised interview since leaving office, sitting down Thursday with ABC News host Juju Chang. The former secretary praised the ousted officers as “experienced professionals” and warned that their departures strip the military of institutional knowledge.
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