Sen. Wicker: The Administration Still Does Not Understand that Sec. Austin Story Is Not Going to Go Away

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WICKER: "Let me just say, the administration still does not understand that this story is not going to go away. They might as well come clean and tell everything that happened and everything they know. At least we know that the staff member had the flu. We don’t even know how seriously ill the secretary of defense continues to be. I’m told that today he is not in ICU anymore, so that’s good news, and we all wish the secretary well. But this is an indictment of the administration’s attitude toward public disclosure and toward full transparency. It is not going to go away. They have now commissioned a 30-day internal review. That is not going to be adequate. If we want to have a review, it needs to be done by an outside inspector general, and then they will have to come before the Congress for a hearing."