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Digital Vision./Getty Images(WASHINGTON) The Department of Defense s press secretary apologized Monday for not being more transparent about information regarding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin s recent hospitalization which the White House learned about three days after he was hospitalized for complications resulting from what was characterized as "a minor, elective procedure." Austin had an elective procedure on Dec. 22 and then went home the next day; however, on Jan. 1, "he began experiencing severe pain and was transported" back to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, said Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Department of Defense press secretary. Ryder said he was informed about Austin s hospitalization on Tuesday, Jan. 2. The White House learned about it on Thursday night; Congress was first notified hospitalization on Friday afternoon shortly before it was made public in a Pentagon news release. "I recognized that I should hav

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