Did Bill Clinton lose America's nuclear launch codes?

[excalibur]

Just a reminder for all you tinfoil hat leftoids. Yes, there are two sets of rules, one for Democrats and one for Republicans.

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What happened?​

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A new memoir by General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that in 2000, an aide to President Clinton once misplaced a crucial series of codes for accessing the country's nuclear arsenal and managed to hide the mistake for "months." Specifically, Shelton claims the aide lost the "biscuit" — a code name for the notecard used to open the black attache case, known as "the football." The suitcase holds "nuclear codes which the US president would use to authorise the launch of nuclear weapons," and Shelton says that losing them is "a big deal—a gargantuan deal." (Watch an ABC report about the controversy)​

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How could something like that simply get lost?​

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Although the "movies may show the president wearing these codes around his neck, it's pretty standard that they are safeguarded by one of his aides," writes Shelton. "But that aide sticks with him like glue." There is also a military protocol for checking on the codes, but the Clinton aide seemed to talk his (or her) way around those standard inspections.​

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How was the situation resolved?​

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When it was time to replace the old codes with new ones, the aide finally confessed what happened, and the president was immediately issued a new "biscuit." Whether the aide suffered repercussions for misplacing the codes is not clear.​

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What would have happened if the codes had fallen into the wrong hands?​

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The world was probably not in imminent danger. Former Homeland Security advisor Fran Townsend tells CNN that, even if an unathorized person got ahold of the codes, "it is very unlikely that they could execute a launch, because the "biscuit" is "only one part of the launch protocol." Actually launching a nuclear strike involves a "multi-layered system" that includes the aforementioned "football."​

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Did Clinton know about the problem?​

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Probably not. The president "assumed, I'm sure," writes Shelton, "that the aide had them like he was supposed to."​

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Is this really the first anyone's heard of this?​

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Sort of. Seven years ago, Robert "Buzz" Patterson, who served as a military advisor to Clinton, wrote an anti-Clinton polemic "Derelection of Duty," which detailed his own experience with lost nuclear codes. Speaking to Accuracy in Media, Patterson recalls that, at one point, "I asked President Clinton to produce the codes so I could swap the codes out with new codes," and the president "confessed that he'd misplaced" them, thereby really violat[ing] military protocol." But in Patterson's version of events Clinton made his error in 1998, as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was breaking. ("Maybe he lost them twice.," says a retired Air Force colonel who carried the "football" during the Clinton administration.)​

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Has this happened to other presidents?​

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According to ABC News, there's an "old story that Jimmy Carter left his biscuit in a suit that got sent to the dry cleaners" — mysteriously, "no one will confirm the story, but no one will deny it either."​

Did Bill Clinton lose America's nuclear launch codes?

A top general says that the codes went missing under Clinton's watch — possibly for months on end

theweek.com

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Cope harder

 

[White 6]

Just a reminder for all you tinfoil hat leftoids. Yes, there are two sets of rules, one for Democrats and one for Republicans.

​

What happened?​

​

A new memoir by General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that in 2000, an aide to President Clinton once misplaced a crucial series of codes for accessing the country's nuclear arsenal and managed to hide the mistake for "months." Specifically, Shelton claims the aide lost the "biscuit" — a code name for the notecard used to open the black attache case, known as "the football." The suitcase holds "nuclear codes which the US president would use to authorise the launch of nuclear weapons," and Shelton says that losing them is "a big deal—a gargantuan deal." (Watch an ABC report about the controversy)​

​

How could something like that simply get lost?​

​

Although the "movies may show the president wearing these codes around his neck, it's pretty standard that they are safeguarded by one of his aides," writes Shelton. "But that aide sticks with him like glue." There is also a military protocol for checking on the codes, but the Clinton aide seemed to talk his (or her) way around those standard inspections.​

​

How was the situation resolved?​

​

When it was time to replace the old codes with new ones, the aide finally confessed what happened, and the president was immediately issued a new "biscuit." Whether the aide suffered repercussions for misplacing the codes is not clear.​

​

What would have happened if the codes had fallen into the wrong hands?​

The world was probably not in imminent danger. Former Homeland Security advisor Fran Townsend tells CNN that, even if an unathorized person got ahold of the codes, "it is very unlikely that they could execute a launch, because the "biscuit" is "only one part of the launch protocol." Actually launching a nuclear strike involves a "multi-layered system" that includes the aforementioned "football."​

​

​

Did Clinton know about the problem?​

​

Probably not. The president "assumed, I'm sure," writes Shelton, "that the aide had them like he was supposed to."​

​

Is this really the first anyone's heard of this?​

​

Sort of. Seven years ago, Robert "Buzz" Patterson, who served as a military advisor to Clinton, wrote an anti-Clinton polemic "Derelection of Duty," which detailed his own experience with lost nuclear codes. Speaking to Accuracy in Media, Patterson recalls that, at one point, "I asked President Clinton to produce the codes so I could swap the codes out with new codes," and the president "confessed that he'd misplaced" them, thereby really violat[ing] military protocol." But in Patterson's version of events Clinton made his error in 1998, as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was breaking. ("Maybe he lost them twice.," says a retired Air Force colonel who carried the "football" during the Clinton administration.)​

​

Has this happened to other presidents?​

​

According to ABC News, there's an "old story that Jimmy Carter left his biscuit in a suit that got sent to the dry cleaners" — mysteriously, "no one will confirm the story, but no one will deny it either."​

Did Bill Clinton lose America's nuclear launch codes?

A top general says that the codes went missing under Clinton's watch — possibly for months on end

theweek.com

Interesting. I never heard of it.

 

[excalibur]

Cope harder

I'm coping fine, derp.

But we get it, you approve of two sets of rules.

 

[otto105]

Just a reminder for all you tinfoil hat leftoids. Yes, there are two sets of rules, one for Democrats and one for Republicans.

​

What happened?​

​

A new memoir by General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that in 2000, an aide to President Clinton once misplaced a crucial series of codes for accessing the country's nuclear arsenal and managed to hide the mistake for "months." Specifically, Shelton claims the aide lost the "biscuit" — a code name for the notecard used to open the black attache case, known as "the football." The suitcase holds "nuclear codes which the US president would use to authorise the launch of nuclear weapons," and Shelton says that losing them is "a big deal—a gargantuan deal." (Watch an ABC report about the controversy)​

​

How could something like that simply get lost?​

​

Although the "movies may show the president wearing these codes around his neck, it's pretty standard that they are safeguarded by one of his aides," writes Shelton. "But that aide sticks with him like glue." There is also a military protocol for checking on the codes, but the Clinton aide seemed to talk his (or her) way around those standard inspections.​

​

How was the situation resolved?​

​

When it was time to replace the old codes with new ones, the aide finally confessed what happened, and the president was immediately issued a new "biscuit." Whether the aide suffered repercussions for misplacing the codes is not clear.​

​

What would have happened if the codes had fallen into the wrong hands?​

The world was probably not in imminent danger. Former Homeland Security advisor Fran Townsend tells CNN that, even if an unathorized person got ahold of the codes, "it is very unlikely that they could execute a launch, because the "biscuit" is "only one part of the launch protocol." Actually launching a nuclear strike involves a "multi-layered system" that includes the aforementioned "football."​

​

​

Did Clinton know about the problem?​

​

Probably not. The president "assumed, I'm sure," writes Shelton, "that the aide had them like he was supposed to."​

​

Is this really the first anyone's heard of this?​

​

Sort of. Seven years ago, Robert "Buzz" Patterson, who served as a military advisor to Clinton, wrote an anti-Clinton polemic "Derelection of Duty," which detailed his own experience with lost nuclear codes. Speaking to Accuracy in Media, Patterson recalls that, at one point, "I asked President Clinton to produce the codes so I could swap the codes out with new codes," and the president "confessed that he'd misplaced" them, thereby really violat[ing] military protocol." But in Patterson's version of events Clinton made his error in 1998, as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was breaking. ("Maybe he lost them twice.," says a retired Air Force colonel who carried the "football" during the Clinton administration.)​

​

Has this happened to other presidents?​

​

According to ABC News, there's an "old story that Jimmy Carter left his biscuit in a suit that got sent to the dry cleaners" — mysteriously, "no one will confirm the story, but no one will deny it either."​

Did Bill Clinton lose America's nuclear launch codes?

A top general says that the codes went missing under Clinton's watch — possibly for months on end

theweek.com

Wow, digging pretty far back to play the whataboutism card.

Under what rock in the wingnut noise machine did this come from?

 

[excalibur]

Interesting. I never heard of it.

Of course, the MSM made sure the stories died.

Recall that if it wasn't for Drudge finding out and going public the MSM was covering up the Monica Lewinsky story.

 

[excalibur]

Wow, digging pretty far back to play the whataboutism card.

Under what rock in the wingnut noise machine did this come from?

It isn't whataboutism, derp.

 

[otto105]

It isn't whataboutism, derp.

Whataboutism is all you have.

 

[bodecea]

Cope harder

I know....they are falling to little pieces all around us.

 

[White 6]

Of course, the MSM made sure the stories died.

Recall that if it wasn't for Drudge finding out and going public the MSM was covering up the Monica Lewinsky story.

They were a little more timely than the story you posted, though I found it fascinating. Excalibur, you would truly be amazed what never has, nor never will make it to mainstream or even non-mainstream knowledge or media.

 

[konradv]

Just a reminder for all you tinfoil hat leftoids. Yes, there are two sets of rules, one for Democrats and one for Republicans.

​

What happened?​

​

A new memoir by General Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that in 2000, an aide to President Clinton once misplaced a crucial series of codes for accessing the country's nuclear arsenal and managed to hide the mistake for "months." Specifically, Shelton claims the aide lost the "biscuit" — a code name for the notecard used to open the black attache case, known as "the football." The suitcase holds "nuclear codes which the US president would use to authorise the launch of nuclear weapons," and Shelton says that losing them is "a big deal—a gargantuan deal." (Watch an ABC report about the controversy)​

​

How could something like that simply get lost?​

​

Although the "movies may show the president wearing these codes around his neck, it's pretty standard that they are safeguarded by one of his aides," writes Shelton. "But that aide sticks with him like glue." There is also a military protocol for checking on the codes, but the Clinton aide seemed to talk his (or her) way around those standard inspections.​

​

How was the situation resolved?​

​

When it was time to replace the old codes with new ones, the aide finally confessed what happened, and the president was immediately issued a new "biscuit." Whether the aide suffered repercussions for misplacing the codes is not clear.​

​

What would have happened if the codes had fallen into the wrong hands?​

​

The world was probably not in imminent danger. Former Homeland Security advisor Fran Townsend tells CNN that, even if an unathorized person got ahold of the codes, "it is very unlikely that they could execute a launch, because the "biscuit" is "only one part of the launch protocol." Actually launching a nuclear strike involves a "multi-layered system" that includes the aforementioned "football."​

​

​

Did Clinton know about the problem?​

​

Probably not. The president "assumed, I'm sure," writes Shelton, "that the aide had them like he was supposed to."​

​

Is this really the first anyone's heard of this?​

​

Sort of. Seven years ago, Robert "Buzz" Patterson, who served as a military advisor to Clinton, wrote an anti-Clinton polemic "Derelection of Duty," which detailed his own experience with lost nuclear codes. Speaking to Accuracy in Media, Patterson recalls that, at one point, "I asked President Clinton to produce the codes so I could swap the codes out with new codes," and the president "confessed that he'd misplaced" them, thereby really violat[ing] military protocol." But in Patterson's version of events Clinton made his error in 1998, as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was breaking. ("Maybe he lost them twice.," says a retired Air Force colonel who carried the "football" during the Clinton administration.)​

​

Has this happened to other presidents?​

​

According to ABC News, there's an "old story that Jimmy Carter left his biscuit in a suit that got sent to the dry cleaners" — mysteriously, "no one will confirm the story, but no one will deny it either."​

Did Bill Clinton lose America's nuclear launch codes?

A top general says that the codes went missing under Clinton's watch — possibly for months on end

theweek.com

Current Events?

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Interesting. I never heard of it.

I heard about it years ago, and yet it has nothing to do with today issue that Trump is facing…

 

[mamooth]

It isn't whataboutism, derp.

It actually falls more into the category of "lying."

You claim that since a military aide -- a non-political person -- made some mistake, it reflects badly on democrats.

You're not that stupid, so the logical conclusion is deliberate dishonesty on your part.

 

[struth]

Clinton did give the CCP nuclear weapon tech.

That was back when the CCP first took ownership of the demafascist party with massive illegal donations. It’s only gotten worse

 

[konradv]

Clinton did give the CCP nuclear weapon tech.

That was back when the CCP first took ownership of the demafascist party with massive illegal donations. It’s only gotten worse

Current Events?

 

[struth]

Current Events?

the CCP ownership of the dembot cult is current

 

[otto105]

the CCP ownership of the dembot cult is current

Can you post in English?


Too hard?

 

[struth]

Can you post in English?


Too hard?

if i posted with a chinese accent would you have understood? silly dembot cultist..

 

[konradv]

the CCP ownership of the dembot cult is current

Conspiracy Theories?

 

[otto105]

if i posted with a chinese accent would you have understood? silly dembot cultist..

No, you posted a racist 4chan post hoping other little bois would like.