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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It was known here on FR. We have always been ahead of the curve!
I’m sure China had the codes.
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.
He think she was an ATM?
Lost at one of his girlfriends’ houses?
Oh for crying out loud.
The Chinese had to get something for all that money they gave Clinton.
Did Monica swallow them ?
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”.
Those of us in the military at the time knew it.
Maybe Monica was really a KGB agent and took them.
“It’s all okay, Bill had them memorized ...
69 24 7 365”
I thought it was:
One, two, three, four, five
Not lost but sold.
Stuffed it in a G-string instead of the 20 he was reaching for?
And Bush just shrugged his shoulders at it all and went on his way.
Lost?
Hah.
Probably gave them to America’s various enemies.....for a “donation.”
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