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Bill Clinton 'lost vital White House nuclear codes'
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 11/4/2018

Posted on 11/04/2018 11:32:09 AM PST by bitt

For several months during Bill Clinton's administration, a former top military officer says the White House lost the card with a set of numbers for opening the briefcase containing the codes for a nuclear attack.

Gen Hugh Shelton, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, said in his new memoir, "Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior" that "the codes were actually missing for months. That's a big deal -- a gargantuan deal."

A similar claim was made by Lt Col Robert Patterson, a former aide, in a book published seven years ago. He was one of the men who carried the briefcase, known as the "football", and he said that 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 provide an updated version.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: billclinton; brexit; football; hughshelton; mediawingofthednc; monicalewinsky; nuclearcodes; nuclearfootball; partisanmediashills; patterson; presstitutes; robertpatterson; securitybreach; smearmachine; theresamay; unitedkingdom; walkinghumidor; x42
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To: The Westerner

It was known here on FR. We have always been ahead of the curve!


81 posted on 11/04/2018 3:05:45 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: bitt

I’m sure China had the codes.


82 posted on 11/04/2018 3:07:06 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

It’s actually less than half the country.

Take away the illegals and dead people, and implement the same sort of get out the vote/bus to the polls campaign that they use and we’d dominate them 3 to 1.


83 posted on 11/04/2018 4:05:53 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: bobby.223

He think she was an ATM?


84 posted on 11/04/2018 4:09:50 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: bitt

Lost at one of his girlfriends’ houses?


85 posted on 11/04/2018 4:13:34 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: bitt

Oh for crying out loud.

The Chinese had to get something for all that money they gave Clinton.


86 posted on 11/04/2018 4:14:57 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: bitt

Did Monica swallow them ?


87 posted on 11/04/2018 4:18:55 PM PST by piroque (The British couldn't take our guns once & I will be damned if it will this time ")
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To: miss marmelstein

Yes, FR has known all the sad, depressing details. I never would have believed that an old fashioned America Firster would get elected President. Though Trump is not aligned with my views on some important fundamentals (to me,) I’ve loved every single throw down of his against the barbarian mob of “correctness”.


88 posted on 11/04/2018 4:43:53 PM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Those of us in the military at the time knew it.


89 posted on 11/04/2018 4:48:46 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: bitt

Maybe Monica was really a KGB agent and took them.


90 posted on 11/04/2018 4:49:31 PM PST by McGruff
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To: Peter ODonnell

“It’s all okay, Bill had them memorized ...

69 24 7 365”

I thought it was:

One, two, three, four, five


91 posted on 11/04/2018 5:01:51 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: bitt

Not lost but sold.


92 posted on 11/04/2018 5:59:28 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: bitt

Stuffed it in a G-string instead of the 20 he was reaching for?


93 posted on 11/04/2018 6:46:45 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: grey_whiskers

And Bush just shrugged his shoulders at it all and went on his way.


94 posted on 11/05/2018 9:38:37 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (The "Blue Wave" is a lie.)
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To: All

Lost?

Hah.

Probably gave them to America’s various enemies.....for a “donation.”


95 posted on 11/06/2018 4:59:05 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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