Bill Clinton ‘Lost’ Nuke Launch Codes for Months
In his new book Without Hesitation, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton reports that he was told that President Bill Clinton had “misplaced” the launch codes for America’s nuclear weapons, and that another later admitted the codes had been missing for months. According to Gen. Shelton, the incident took place sometime “around 2000,” though a previous book by Lt. Col. Patterson claimed that President Clinton had lost the codes in the midst of the 1998 Monica Lewinski scandal. [This is probably because Lewinski's Israeli handlers needed to copy them and send them to Israel...]