WNDDid the U.S. not have a functioning defense secretary during Lloyd Austin's secret hospitalization?
- Bias Rating
16% Somewhat Conservative
- Reliability
95% ReliableExcellent
- Policy Leaning
4% Center
- Politician Portrayal
-40% Negative
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
55% : "There is a clear leadership issue at the Department of Defense that needs to be addressed," he added, citing his official probe into the process.52% : The U.S. could have effectively lacked a figure at the helm of its military for at least three days while Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin remained in the Intensive Care Unit without the knowledge of his deputy, the President or other key officials, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
48% : The Secretary of Defense is a player in all major national security decisions and to have him absent with nobody knowing is unprecedented," retired Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the DCNF.
48% : The Secretary of Defense is a player in all major national security decisions and to have him absent with nobody knowing is unprecedented," retired Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the DCNF.
48% : During his hospitalization, Austin transferred "certain operational authorities" that require "constant secure communications capabilities" to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told CNN.
48% : "We need to know who is in charge at the Department of Defense.
47% : We cannot have a Secretary of Defense who can just disappear for days on end unnoticed," Republican Alabama Rep. Mike Rogers, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, told the DCNF.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.