{"id":1604204,"date":"2022-08-13T06:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T10:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1604204"},"modified":"2022-08-13T06:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T10:48:20","slug":"flashback-bill-clinton-jimmy-carter-allegedly-lost-the-nuclear-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-bill-clinton-jimmy-carter-allegedly-lost-the-nuclear-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter Allegedly Lost The Nuclear Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-bill-clinton-jimmy-carter-allegedly-lost-the-nuclear-codes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1604204&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter both were involved in stories about having lost the nuclear codes, a 2010 report from ABC News revealed.<\/p>\n<p>ABC had <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WN\/president-bill-clinton-lost-nuclear-codes-office-book\/story?id=11930878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported on<\/a> a memoir published by Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served under Clinton as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff between 1997 and 2001, and a story about the former President having lost the codes for \u201cmonths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one point during the Clinton administration the codes were actually missing for months,\u201d Shelton wrote. \u201cThat\u2019s a big deal \u2014 a gargantuan deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also point to a similar story told by Ret. Air Force Lt. Col Robert Patterson in his book, which claimed Clinton \u201cmisplaced\u201d the nuclear codes the morning after the Monica Lewinsky story broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe thought he just placed them upstairs,\u201d Patterson claimed. \u201cWe called upstairs, we started a search around the White House for the codes, and he finally confessed that he in fact misplaced them. He couldn\u2019t recall when he had last seen them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just a reminder, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BillClinton<\/a> actually LOST the nuclear codes during my tenure with him. We weren\u2019t raided. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/39sBgRtw3T\">https:\/\/t.co\/39sBgRtw3T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzPatterson\/status\/1557889617042587652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/trump-demands-immediate-release-of-search-warrant-denies-reports-that-fbi-raid-was-over-nuclear-weapons-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Demands Immediate Release Of Search Warrant, Denies Reports That FBI Raid Was Over Nuclear Weapons Documents<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Nuclear Codes Sent to the Cleaners?<\/h3>\n<p>Business Insider further elaborates that aides repeatedly told Shelton that Clinton was \u201cbusy,\u201d and so he could not do his required check of the nuclear codes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bill-clinton-lost-president-nuclear-codes-and-nobody-found-out-2018-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This went on for months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>The ABC News report also references a story about Jimmy Carter having lost the \u201cbiscuit\u201d \u2013 the card containing the nuclear codes that are to remain near the President at all times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsider the old story that Jimmy Carter left his biscuit in a suit that got sent to the dry cleaners,\u201d they wrote. \u201cToday, no one will confirm the story, but no one will deny it either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Timeline in 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/timeline.com\/jimmy-carter-once-sent-launch-codes-to-the-cleaner-and-other-scary-tales-of-the-nuclear-football-add77568346e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote that<\/a> officials still hadn\u2019t confirmed the story but \u201cit\u2019s been an open secret that Jimmy Carter inadvertently lost his (biscuit) when a suit was sent to the dry cleaners.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And \u2018Jimmy Carter was rumoured to have once left [them] in a suit that was sent to the dry cleaners.\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g5fvFDPH\">http:\/\/t.co\/g5fvFDPH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 London Review of Books (@LRB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LRB\/status\/287214575462539266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/house-democrats-want-biden-to-relinquish-sole-authority-to-launch-nuclear-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Democrats Want Biden To Relinquish Sole Authority To Launch Nuclear Weapons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Democrats Didn\u2019t Want Biden or Trump to Have Nuclear Control<\/h3>\n<p>Dozens of House Democrats last year called on President Joe Biden to relinquish sole control over the country\u2019s nuclear arsenal and the ability to launch a strike using those weapons.<\/p>\n<p>But in doing so, they clearly <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/house-democrats-want-biden-to-relinquish-sole-authority-to-launch-nuclear-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had an eye on<\/a> Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it had little to do with Biden at all as a letter to Biden referenced the behaviors and threats of \u201cpast presidents\u201d as reasons for the proposed change.<\/p>\n<p>The footnotes in the letter referenced an alleged \u201cthreat\u201d to nuke North Korea by the former President.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nearly three dozen House Democrats on Monday called on Biden to relinquish his sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, in the latest appeal to reform the command-and-control structure so that no single person can initiate a nuclear war <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AOIHaYf1b4\">https:\/\/t.co\/AOIHaYf1b4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OSKJ64d3cW\">pic.twitter.com\/OSKJ64d3cW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 POLITICO (@politico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politico\/status\/1364251316852322305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/08\/11\/garland-trump-mar-a-lago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Thursday published<\/a> a sensational report alleging that this week\u2019s raid on Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort was an attempt by the FBI to retrieve documents pertaining to \u201cnuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest information, via NBC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-mar-lago-search-warrant-property-receipt-show-agents-found-trove-rcna42793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about the recovered documents<\/a>: \u201cFederal agents removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some that were labeled top secret, according to documents obtained by NBC News. Among the items the FBI took was a handwritten note, information about the \u201cPresident of France,\u201d an executive grant of clemency for Trump ally Roger Stone and binders of photos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter both were involved in stories about having lost the nuclear codes, a 2010 report from ABC News revealed. 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