Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served under Clinton as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has reported in his new book that President Bill Clinton lost the “biscuit,” the launch codes for a nuclear attack, for months before telling aides. He recounts how Clinton first told his security detail that he left the codes somewhere upstairs in the White House but, after an exhaustive search, admitted that he had lost the codes months earlier.
The account is found in Shelton’s new memoir, “Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior.”
Ret. Air Force Lt. Col Robert Patterson also revealed the incident in his book. Patterson carried the football and says that he made a routine request the morning after the Lewinsky scandal broke for the president to present the card so it could be swapped for the new card. He recounted how “we started a search around the White House for the codes, and he finally confessed that he in fact misplaced them. He couldn’t recall when he had last seen them.” I guess it depends on the meaning of “lost.”
The two authors, however, disagree on when the card was lost in 1998 or 2000.
I now can understand the logic behind Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy.
Source: ABC
It is amazing that our government doesn’t blow itself up.
The only thing scarier than Clinton losing the launch codes is that George Bush didn’t.
Annapolis grad here, I do not see your point. No code can be inputted unless and until the CIC gives the correct code and then there are folks that have codes that activates the remainder of the codes once they are activated. Don’t you know anything?
Seriously? Who designed a system like this? Any bright 5th grader could see this flaw. Since the two insiders who claimed that it happened put the date years apart, I find this whole story suspect.
What is the point of having a officer carry the football if it depends on a card the President carries around on his person?
who found them, Monica’s ob-gyn?
“Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
William J. Clinton “
maybe there is some truth to the old saying “she screwed his brains out”? Speaking metaphorically of course about Monica L.
So who is Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Buzz Patterson? He is a bestselling author, and more importantly, from 1996 to 1998, Colonel Patterson was the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton. During that period he was the man responsible for the President’s Emergency Satchel, also known as the “Nuclear Football.” It is the black bag with the nation’s nuclear capability that is supposed to be with the president at all times. In this interview Patterson points out, however, that isn’t always the case. Colonel Patterson was also operational commander for all military units assigned to the White House, including Air Force One, Marine One, Camp David, White House Transportation Agency and White House Mess.
Name of his new book? Conduct Unbecoming: How Barack Obama is Destroying The Military and Endangering Our Security
http://gulagbound.com/6954/interview-with-retired-lt-col-buzz-patterson-on-obama-clinton-and-national-security
HenMan
1, October 22, 2010 at 11:34 am
President Clinton isn’t the only President who lost things- President Obama lost his copy of “The Progressive’s Handbook”, his copy of the Constitution, and his list of campaign promises.
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We’ll see if he finds them in time for 2012 ….
President Obama lost his copy of “The Progressive’s Handbook”, his copy of the Constitution, and his list of campaign promises.
Don’t forget the long form.
I always wondered what he was looking for with that cigar.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/22/george-w-bush-reveals-his_n_772209.html Bush reveals that his biggest mistake was not getting Social Security privatized. All the Social Security money would have been lost in the crash.
President Clinton isn’t the only President who lost things- President Obama lost his copy of “The Progressive’s Handbook”, his copy of the Constitution, and his list of campaign promises.
The mayor of Boston left a check for millions of dollars in a taxicab.
Was the Code (DNA) on the Blew Dress…In Peach is what he got for that huh….I bet this was a code he was hoping to lose….Right Concept Wrong Execution….