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Micaela Burrow Daily Caller News Foundation For at least three days it was unclear to the president, the deputy secretary of defense and the public who was at the top of the military chain of command while Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was secretly in the hospital. Austin’s undisclosed absence may have jeopardized national security,…

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