Classic!
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/general-clinton-lost-the-biscuit-nuclear-codes/19684849?icid=main%7Cmain%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C179355

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"President Bill Clinton's administration lost track of "the Biscuit," special codes that allow the president to launch a nuclear attack, according to retired Gen. Hugh Shelton. "

For those that like words - here's the rest...

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"The codes, printed on a credit-card-sized certificate, are a key part of America's nuclear protocol. They allow the president to open a special briefcase that contains instructions for a surprise nuclear launch, and the commander in chief is supposed to keep the card with him at all times. Under Bill Clinton, the card disappeared. "The codes were actually missing for months," Shelton, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in his book "Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior." "This is a big deal -- a gargantuan deal -- and we dodged a silver bullet," Shelton believes that Clinton put one of his aides in charge of guarding the codes and that he probably didn't even know they'd been misplaced. "The president never did have them, but he assumed, I'm sure, that the aide had them like he was supposed to," Shelton wrote. Once a month, Pentagon officials stop by the White House to ensure the president still has the card. For at least two months in a row, one of Clinton's aides told the military checker that the president was in a meeting but that he definitely had the codes. But when the time came to update the codes with new ones sometime in 2000, a Clinton aide confessed that the card was missing. According to his book, Shelton burst into the office of then Defense Secretary William Cohen and said, "You are not going to believe this." New codes were issued within minutes, and procedures have since been changed. Now the Pentagon official who goes to the White House once a month is required to physically see the card in the president's possession. Analysts say the case of the missing codes marks one of the most serious security breaches in American nuclear history. But if an unauthorized person found the "biscuit," he or she would still be unable to launch a nuclear attack on their own. The other key part is the special briefcase, dubbed "the football," which contains detailed instructions for a nuclear launch. "Even if you had a piece that was required, it would be very difficult for one person to execute the command and control of this thing," Fran Townsend, who served as Homeland Security adviser to President George W. Bush, told CNN. "There are plenty of things to be concerned about. I just find it difficult to imagine somebody could execute this thing, if they found a piece to it." Shelton claims that his story about the missing nuclear codes has never before been publicly known. But another retired military chief, Air Force Lt. Col Robert Patterson, gave a similar account in his own book published seven years ago. Patterson was one of the officials in charge of carrying the briefcase with the nuclear instructions, and described how at one point he had to ask Clinton for the codes to swap them for updated versions. That routine check happened on the morning after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. "He thought he just placed them upstairs," Patterson told ABC News. "We 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't recall when he had last seen them." In Patterson's version of events, the president himself lost the codes in 1998, while Shelton blames the mistake on a presidential aide and says it happened in 2000. There's been no comment from Clinton. As for the complex, layered security system that ensures America's nuclear secrets don't fall into the wrong hands, Shelton wrote, "You can do whatever you can and think you have an infallible system, but somehow someone always seems to find a way to screw it up." "

10/22/2010 11:07:22 AM

boys will be boys

10/22/2010 11:11:50 AM

Hooker dues, yo!

10/22/2010 11:13:38 AM

that is a ridiculous code name

10/22/2010 11:27:19 AM

I've lost my cookies a few times but never my biscuit.

10/22/2010 11:35:01 AM

What?! RIP Fred Durst

10/22/2010 11:35:27 AM

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""This is a big deal -- a gargantuan deal -- and we dodged a silver bullet,""

Wait, Hugh Shelton is a werewolf?!

10/22/2010 12:06:49 PM

i always liked to play "hide the biscuit" with my uncle. actually he wasn't my uncle. he was this guy who said he knew my uncle.

10/22/2010 12:18:53 PM

"The biscuit is limp. I repeat... The biscuit is limp."

10/22/2010 12:28:37 PM

"The cigar is in port."

10/22/2010 12:30:25 PM

Soggy Biscuit.

10/22/2010 12:34:32 PM

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"Wait, Hugh Shelton is a werewolf?! "

no, he dodged one of those Coors Light trains that mysteriously bust through buildings and freeze everything.

10/22/2010 12:36:27 PM

The Eagle has landed and the Biscuit is MIA. Search the Stagecoach and Cowpuncher. GO GO GO!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Service_codename

10/22/2010 12:48:03 PM

Goodness me, we were deprived of the ability to start a nuclear holocaust!

"dodged a bullet" doesn't begin to describe how lucky we were.

10/22/2010 1:13:20 PM

Hugh Shelton is an awesome guy. Got to meet him once. He is truly one of our great alumni.

10/22/2010 1:54:06 PM

I heard he's gay.

10/22/2010 2:03:22 PM

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"Goodness me, we were deprived of the ability to start a nuclear holocaust! "dodged a bullet" doesn't begin to describe how lucky we were."

Hahaha

10/22/2010 2:22:31 PM

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"Goodness me, we were deprived of the ability to start a nuclear holocaust! "dodged a bullet" doesn't begin to describe how lucky we were."

Start or at least make worse.

10/22/2010 6:19:17 PM

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"Hugh Shelton is an awesome guy. Got to meet him once. He is truly one of our great alumni."

Likewise.

Not just an NCSU alumnus, either. College of Textiles

10/22/2010 6:23:27 PM

what a fucking bumpkin

10/22/2010 7:17:54 PM

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"no, he dodged one of those Coors Light trains that mysteriously bust through buildings and freeze everything."

11.5/10

10/23/2010 2:20:42 AM

he probably just put the biscuit in the basket

10/23/2010 5:44:23 AM

He lives a few minutes from me. He's got a nice place, and his road has been renamed in his honor.

10/23/2010 8:07:01 AM

http://www.ncsu.edu/extension/sheltonleadership/

10/23/2010 10:20:46 AM

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"Not just an NCSU alumnus, either. College of Textiles"

id love to talk up some sliver and roving w/ him sometime

10/23/2010 10:46:35 AM

no wonder they got lost, we had a guy whose background was making quilts and dishrags in charge of it

10/23/2010 2:02:11 PM

i thought Clinton was in charge of the card

10/23/2010 2:02:48 PM

he was supposed to have it, but this dude was in charge of making sure he had it

10/23/2010 2:03:42 PM

Biscuit + Football = global holocaust.

Makes sense.

10/23/2010 2:56:00 PM

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"SURPRISE NOOKULAR LAUNCH"

10/23/2010 2:58:50 PM