So far, there’s no defense for Lloyd Austin’s hospital silence

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who remains hospitalized after concealing his condition from President Biden and White House officials for at least three days, owes the public more answers about his health. That includes the nature of the elective procedure he received on Dec. 22 and the complications that led to him being taken by ambulance to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s intensive care unit on New Year’s Day. The public timeline that the Pentagon has so far released is unsettlingly vague: The secretary was experiencing “severe pain,” it says,...