Bill Clinton ‘Biscuit’ went missing for months, or so says retired Gen. Hugh Shelton in his new memoirs ‘Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior’. The ‘Biscuit’ refers to the Clinton launch codes used to order the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to proceed with an attack using nuclear weapons. The story about Clinton and launch codes is not new. Ret. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Patterson , former aid to President Clinton, also made the same claim in his memoirs ‘Dereliction of Duty’. But even this incident may not be unique as there has long been a rumor Jimmy Carter left his biscuit in a suit sent to the dry cleaners.
Clinton seemed to have the most trouble hanging on to his ‘biscuit’. In 1999, White House spokesman Joe Lockhart admitted that during a NATO summit, Clinton left his briefcase behind which contained his launch codes. In Patterson’s book, the other incident took place at the White House, which was searched thoroughly in vain to locate the missing codes.
Patterson wrote “He [Clinton] thought he just placed them upstairs. We called upstairs, we started a search around the White House for the codes, and finally he [Clinton] confessed that he in fact misplaced them. He couldn’t recall when he had last seen them.”
The ‘biscuit’ itself was probably best recreated in Tom Clancy’s ‘The Sum of All Fears’. Essentially, a plastic card carried by the president and other authorized cabinet members which has a series of numbers. Each government official only uses one line of numbers on the card to authenticate themselves during the procedure to authorize the launch codes and initiate a nuclear attack.
That Bill Clinton ‘Biscuit’ went missing for months is certainly a problem, Retired Gen. Hugh Shelton raises the story again in his new memoirs ‘Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior’. Shelton, a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is not the only person to write about Clinton launch codes being lost. Ret. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Patterson alleged President Clinton lost his biscuit, too. Another rumor Jimmy Carter left a biscuit in a suit sent to a dry cleaners has also floated around Washington for decades.
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October 22nd, 2010 at 4:55 am
WELL?? WHERE DID THEY FIND IT? Or Did they find it at all? It’s one thing to misplace it in some benign place, and simply LOOK incompetent and yet another to be floating around in places nobody knows and be an absolute horrific DANGER to this country!
And if you say…”well, buy the book and find out”, then this isn’t news at all but some partisan, self-serving sales pitch.
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:00 am
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October 22nd, 2010 at 5:04 am
Hey morons, they change the codes often, so even if someone had them they would be useless
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:09 am
Amazing how all it takes is an allegation to make something true. Anyone consider the desire to sell books can encourage an author to spice up some facts?
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:09 am
I had to read that headline three times before it made any sense to me.
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:13 am
Doooouuuuuuh! Lost opportunity!
Sincerely,
Mr. Putin
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:19 am
You right wingers are really desperate for a story aren’t ya? Hahahaha losers.
How about “Bush F–ked This Country For Eight Years”……..nahhhhhh to truthful for you lot.
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:23 am
Your headline needs a comma. It makes absolutely no sense.
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:35 am
This can’t be true. Hard to believe he lost a single biscuit in his presidency. The man was 50 lbs overweight when he left office.
October 22nd, 2010 at 7:10 am
That is concidered a breach of security. Lost crypto is a felony offense. I worked with cyrpto in the Navy and if one piece of crypto turned up missing whether old or new we were subjected to doing time in Leavensworth. Why is the President exempt from prosecution in this case? His cryptographic materials are far more sensitive than the materials that I handled.
Where was that material? During the time that it was missing someone could have been copying it.
On one ship I served on we have the infamous DAY 26. The crypto for that day turned up missing when the CMS Custodian went around and collected the old days to replace with the new day. The couldn’t find the old material and the old is more sensitive than the new because it can be used to decipher information already sent, the new can be replaced before being used.
The Day 26 incident had everyone from the Department Head, who was a full Commander all the way down to the CMS Custodian going before the Captain. That was Dept. Head, CICO, Division Officer, Leading Chief Petty Officer, Leading Petty Officer and the Watch Section Leader then the CMS Custodian.
But Clinton gets to walk away with just an OOPS, for his insecurity breach.
October 22nd, 2010 at 7:29 am
Should have printed Clintons codes on a Big Mac, no way would he have lost them then. Of course he might have eaten them!?
October 22nd, 2010 at 8:18 am
Maybe an intern could have helped him handle his biscuit.
October 22nd, 2010 at 8:18 am
ASK Monica Lewinsky(?)– Not only gotten his weiner– but his biscuit too!!!! lmao
WAY TO GO Clinton–
October 22nd, 2010 at 8:44 am
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October 22nd, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Good. Something like this should be lost. I hope the Russians lose theirs too.
October 22nd, 2010 at 7:57 pm
I’m still amazed that this disgraceful basta*d can show his face in public without a bit of embarrassment.
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