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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To channel “Flounder” :”Oh boy, is this thread gonna be great!”
You think thats bad.... Obama doesnt even have the football with him most of the time. Biden is the guy with them.
You are joking right?
You think thats bad.... Obama doesnt even have the football with him most of the time. Biden is the guy with them.
You are joking right?
I bet he never misplaced his little black book of phone numbers.
I recall reading this accusation back in 2000 in the book “Dereliction of Duty”.
“In his pants?”
Well, he was out of them a great deal and they could get lost.
Liberals are so irresponsible and clueless.
This isn’t a White House staffer or some DC “insider.” It’s the man who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Are you saying you know more about the codes and their management than he does ?
Monica used it as a bookmark in her copy of “Leaves of Grass.”
The code book was kept in a safe and we had to have two Marines present to set the device that we used to punch the code into each aircraft.
I don't know why a device that could send off a bunch of nuclear war heads would be treated differently.
It’s not like he would have ever used them, even if he had them.
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