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The Spectacle Blog
Well, well, well — how soon we forget. General Hugh Shelton is making headlines, saying in his new book, Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, which must be a tremendous bore and a bit inaccurate: “…and until this day, to my knowledge this has never been released — the codes were actually missing for months.” He is referring to the presidential nuclear codes of Bill Clinton.
But as I reported in my 2007 book, The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President’s Life After the White House:
In 1999 he [Clinton] had hastily left a high-level diplomatic meeting in Washington without telling the military aide responsible for the football [the nuclear codes]. Abandoned, and without security, the poor man had to hotfoot it back to the White House alone through the streets of the capital, football in hand. The story was widely reported. Less widely reported, Clinton actually lost his personal set of nuclear codes when the Lewinsky scandal broke. His security detail turned the White House upside down but never found those codes. Maybe some day they too will turn up on eBay or on a Clintonista’s coffee table.
Much of the story was reported in an earlier book by Buzz Patterson. Equally rich is that Jimmy Carter left his nuclear codes in a suit he had sent out to be cleaned.
National security is not a major concern with modern-day Democrats. Where are the Prophet Obama’s codes?
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Ken (Old Texican)| 10.22.10 @ 1:07PM
Holy Moley, Mr. Tyrrell!
I did not see that in the day! I was busy starting up a company 16 hours a day.
I have a "football" moment in my new novel.
Read it when you need your blood pressure up. (smile) www.texassaidno.com
Mad Hatter| 10.22.10 @ 1:32PM
Two nuclear code incidents so flukey,
Careless handling leaves me scared, even pukey.
Carter's Sunday's Best,
Buttons and codes pressed,
But the cleaners said, "No tickie, no nukie!"
Mad Hatter| 10.22.10 @ 1:42PM
Bill lost for months, the nuke football's keys?
My blood's doing a Nuclear Freeze!
Can't be left in the lurch,
Everyone joined in the search,
Why, even Monica was down on her knees!
ncatty| 10.22.10 @ 1:51PM
Bill Clinton is not now and was not then a serious person.
Mad Hatter| 10.22.10 @ 1:59PM
Clinton, maybe after a call from his mad spouse,
Snuck out, past military escort, like a mouse.
So, football tucked under arm,
The aide, He's the Bomb!
Go Army! He's going to "Take It To The House"!
Akaky| 10.22.10 @ 2:00PM
You know, it always amazes me that you can have Clinton Adminstration scandals without a Clinton in the White House. Absolutely amazing...or maybe not.
Warrior | 10.22.10 @ 2:17PM
I remember working in the Titan II missile fields back in the day. We were issued codes that enabled us to get onto the sites to perform our duties. If you were to improperly destroy or lose a code sheet, you faced disciplinary action which could include the loss rank and/or your actual security clearance and discharge. We currently have a President in the White House that would not qualify for even a minimal security clearance under the same standards that get applied to an E-1 departing basic training. We have Sandy Burglar who if employed by any section of the DOD would have been facing jail time for the deliberate theft and probable compromise of classified information. Now there are two moron Presidents who can't be trusted with the most critical and sensitive of classified materials even with advisors and handlers. Still hard to believe how liberals continue to call W stupid when you look at what they are using for a comparison.
Franklin| 10.22.10 @ 3:23PM
Well said!
L A Stich| 10.22.10 @ 3:52PM
"Clinton actually lost his personal set of nuclear codes when the Lewinsky scandal broke..."
Did anyone look in the pockets of The Dress?
PattyMor| 10.23.10 @ 1:32PM
Maybe Bill could look for the codes under the cigars in the humidor!!
weddingdress | 7.15.11 @ 5:13AM
"Clinton actually lost his personal set of nuclear codes when the Lewinsky scandal broke..."
Did anyone look in the pockets of The Dress?