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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...

<p>Thwack! Another nail drives into the coffin of Bill Clinton’s legacy.</p> <p>No other president in recent memory has pursued a “legacy” with such reckless abandon only to have it repeatedly exposed as a smoke and mirrors extravaganza based on arrogance, ignorance and selfishness.</p> <p>Dereliction of Duty is the personal account of Lt. Col. “Buzz” Patterson while he served the nation during the Clinton administration as one of the carriers of the “nuclear football.”</p>

Robert “Buzz” Patterson is the author of the new book, “Conduct Unbecoming: How Barack Obama is Destroying the Military and Endangering Our Security,” to be released on Sept. 7. During his 20 years on active duty, the former lieutenant colonel participated in combat operations in Grenada, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, and Bosnia, and as senior military aide to President Bill Clinton, was responsible for the “Nuclear Football.” Since retiring from the Air Force in 2001, Patterson has authored two New York Times bestsellers, “Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America’s National Security” and “Reckless Disregard: How...

On the matter of ABC’s “Path to 9/11” and the controversy it has produced, I have no inside knowledge of what ABC intends to do tomorrow night, but I am considering two things: 1. in all fairness I do not agree with the grouping of several real incidents into one fictitious incident and putting fake dialogue in the mouths of real people as this film is reported to do. I think former President Clinton, former Secretary Albright, former National Security Advisor (and convicted felon) Sandy Berger, along with others in the Clinton Administration, were completely incompetent

Apparently, John Kerry was the only guy in Vietnam. His Audie Murphy-like performance in his few weeks in combat notwithstanding, Kerry's self-centered ownership of a conflict that he so reviled is startling in its absurdity. In March of this year, he told Carl Cameron, "I was there, and it was mine, and it was a war and I fought in it." In other words, its John Kerry's war and you can't have it. He can have his "band of brothers," the straggling few, but the overwhelming majority of those who also served, including Kerry's Vietnam chain of command, an overwhelming...

Note that in the Newsweek story here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4208768/, Newsweek reports that the 9/11 Commission is trying to obtain complete access to presidential daily briefs, or PDFs “dating back to 1998”. However, as established in my article here http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10324, Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson, who carried the “nuclear football” for President Clinton, wrote in his book last year that he saw a PDF to Clinton in 1996 discussing the Islamic terrorists’ plot to use commercial airliners as weapons. Assuming the Newsweek article is accurate, why isn’t the 9/11 Commission following up on this? Why isn’t the 9/11 Commission requesting access to the...

AMONG THE MILITARY WHO SERVED in the White House and the professional white House staff, the Clinton administration was renowned for its lack of professionalism and courtesy, though few ever spoke publicly about it. This aspect of the Clinton administration became apparent to me from my earliest golf outings with the president It was telling to me how often he played golf with certain types of people - people like Terry McAuliffe, his campaign and fundraising guru, and the Rodham brothers, Hugh and Tony. They, like many of Clinton's cronies, were remarkably pompous and inconsiderate individuals. The Rodham brothers are...

A Book Review Dereliction of Duty, by Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, USAF [Ret.] Normally there's little to be gained from living in the past, but if you live in rattlesnake country you'd best never forget their dangerous habits. Snakes don't love or hate; they are indifferent to the hurt they can inflict on us. We study them, and learn to recognize their hiding places and the noises they make just before they strike. If we're bitten we know there are antidotes to lessen the damage, but they can kill. The very old, the very young, and the weak are...

Speaking at the Yorba Linda, California site of the Richard Nixon Library, ( www.nixonlibrary.org) Robert Patterson gave an outline of his new book, "Derliction of Duty". Patterson's book outlines the how he and the other members of the Military had to interact with the Clintons. He was in charge of the "football" that carried the nukular codes. In this event, taped at the Nixon Library on May 20, 2003, Patterson told some stories from his book and took questions and comments from the audience. One such story...Flying back to DC in AF1 after a LONG trip, they arrive home late...

Iraq Attack Scrubbed for Clinton Golf GameBy Newsmax.com | April 21, 2003 Ex-President Bill Clinton kept a squadron of F-117 stealth fighter-bombers and B-52s waiting to launch a critical 1996 airstrike on Iraq while he finished watching a golf tournament - dithering so long that U.S. pilots lost the cover of darkness and the mission had to be scrubbed. That's the explosive charge leveled in a brand new book by Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, a key Clinton military aide from 1996 through 1998 whose primary mission was to carry the president's copy of America's nuclear launch codes. "We dispatched eight...

Tonight, March 27, 2003 - The Shrew Interviews Lt. Col "Buzz" Patterson, USAF. Lt. Colonel Patterson was the Air Force Military Aide to President Bill Clinton from 1996 - 1998. He has recently published a book through Regnery Publishing titled "Dereliction of Duty". The interview will be live and last one half hour from 830PM EST - 9PM EST. Lt. Colonel Patterson is the first former Presidential Military Aide to publish a book concerning his time in the White House. He was also one of the holders of the "nuclear" football and has detailed first hand experience of the...

It didn't take long for the press to begin trashing Lt. Col Robert Patterson (USAF Ret.), the most important Clinton administration national security whistle-blower since the FBI's Gary Aldrich and Chinagate insider Johnny Chung. Tuesday morning's New York Daily News describes Patterson's blockbuster new book, "Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised National Security," as "the latest title from the Bubba-bashers at Regnery Press." However, as this space chronicled over the weekend, the bombshells dropped by Lt. Col. Patterson not only transcend "Bubba-bashing," they also offer key insights into how President Clinton's leadership left America...

Ex-President Bill Clinton "sexually molested" a female steward aboard Air Force One and was later forced to apologize to the woman, a bombshell new book by White House whistleblower, Lt. Col. Robert Patterson reveals. The identity of the woman, an enlisted member of the Air Force, is being protected by Lt. Col. Patterson. But the searing new account of a commander-in-chief preying upon a military subordinate could spell trouble for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who, as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, would have jurisdiction to investigate the incident. In "Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of...

Book Bombshell: Iraq Attack Scrubbed for Clinton Golf Game Ex-President Bill Clinton kept a squadron of F-117 stealth fighter-bombers and B-52s waiting to launch a critical 1996 airstrike on Iraq while he finished watching a golf tournament - dithering so long that U.S. pilots lost the cover of darkness and the mission had to be scrubbed. That's the explosive charge leveled in a brand new book by Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, a key Clinton military aide from 1996 through 1998 whose primary mission was to carry the president's copy of America's nuclear launch codes. "We dispatched eight F-117 stealth fighter-bombers...

Ex-President Bill Clinton kept a squadron of F-117 stealth fighter-bombers and B-52s waiting to launch a critical 1996 airstrike on Iraq while he finished watching a golf tournament - dithering so long that U.S. pilots lost the cover of darkness and the mission had to be scrubbed. That's the explosive charge leveled in a brand new book by Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, a key Clinton military aide from 1996 through 1998 whose primary mission was to carry the president's copy of America's nuclear launch codes. "We dispatched eight F-117 stealth fighter-bombers capable of carrying 2,000-pound bombs into the region...

Former Clinton Aide: Bill Told Outrageous Lies to Win Reelection and Lost the Nuclear Codes ! This is shocking news this morning as revealed by a "Washington Whispers" report by U. S. News reporter Paul Bedard. The news comes from former military aide Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, who carried the nuclear "football" for President Clinton from May 1996 to May 1998. It is in Patterson's new book: Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security. The book crosses a line that no other military aide ever crossed before in condemning his former commander in...

Former President Clinton lost the codes to nuclear war the day the Monica Lewinsky affair broke, was MIA in the fall of 1998 when a decision was needed on the killing of Osama bin Laden, and was "too busy watching a golf match" to OK a 1996 bombing mission in Iraq, says a blockbuster new book by Clinton's former military aide. Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, who carried the nuclear "football" from May 1996 to May 1998, crosses a line no other "mil aide" has before in condemning his commander in chief in Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How...