Posted on 10/20/2010 4:41:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
President Bill Clinton Lost Nuclear Codes While in Office, New Book Claims Former Chairman of Joint Chiefs Says Nuclear 'Biscuit' Went Missing for Months
When you're President of the United States, you can lose a vote, you can lose popular support, and you can lose a round of golf. But you're never, ever supposed to lose the biscuit.
That's what they call the card the president is meant to keep close at hand, bearing the codes that he has to have in order to launch a nuclear attack. And for several months during the Clinton administration, a former top military officer says they lost the biscuit.
Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served under Clinton as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells the story in his just-published memoir, "Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior."
"At one point during the Clinton administration," Shelton writes, "the codes were actually missing for months. [...] That's a big deal -- a gargantuan deal."
Shelton claims the story has never been released before, but Ret. Air Force Lt. Col Robert Patterson told a very similar account in his own book, published seven years ago.
Patterson was one of the men who carried the football, and he says it was literally the morning after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke that he made a routine request of the president to present the card so that he could swap it out for an updated version.
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NEVER...EVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT!!
I wonder if they were under his desk...
He certainly was! ROFL!
He sold the codes to China.
Anyone here still think it would be a good idea to have a Klinton back in the White House?
OMG.......
You think that’s bad.... Obama doesn’t even have the football with him most of the time. Biden is the guy with them.
I’m sure they were safe with some bimbo who hadn’t a clue what they were.
He’s a word I can’ say on this forum.
I think this is bogus! The codes would be changed daily
Can you imagine GWB losing the "biscuit"? Can you imagine?
Can you imagine Jimmeh Cahtuh sending it to the dry cleaners? Well, yes -- but it would've embarrassed him.
Clinton, on the other hand, couldn't be bothered...
in his pants?
Oh I figured Reggie “the LOVE man” had them on his Blackberry.
Yeah. Something sounds fishy. (no, I am not suggesting that Monica hid them in her panties)
Anyway, I can’t believe the US kept only one set of codes, that they were not changed for months and did not have a back up plan in case they were lost.
This story doesn’t add up.
This story was also told by Buzz Patterson in his book, Dereliction of Duty.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry about this. Carter did the same thing. Democrats....
Well, we know where he put the cigar. Perhaps...
The codes they're talking about are the ones used to verify it's the president. The president carries a credit card sized card with several groups of numbers and only the card carrier knows which one he's supposed to read.
Seriously man; I recall stories on this site many years back (along with hearing it on Quinn’s radio show) about this. I can’t claim to the legitimacy of the story as a whole, but I recall it being a bit more than common knowledge in the Belt Way.
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