A spokesman from the Australia Department of Defense has clarified that Assistant U.S. defense secretary David Shear had ‘misspoke’ on the deployment of B-1 bombers to Australia during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

By SSgt. Jerry Morrison, USAF [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“We are aware of the comments made by a U.S. official in Congressional testimony overnight. The U.S. government has contacted us to advise that the official misspoke.”

Source: Alert 5