President Clinton lost nuclear codes

According to a new book by the former joint chief of staff, Bill Clinton mislaid the card that opened the briefcase containing codes for a nuclear attack.

Gen. Hugh Shelton says in his new memoir that for several months in 2000, no one knew where the card needed to open the nuclear code briefcase was. Lt Col Robert Patterson made a similar claim in a book he published in 2003. Patterson was one of the men who carried the briefcase, known as the “football,” and said the day after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke he asked the president for the card, known as the “biscuit.” After sending White House staffers scrambling to find it, Clinton admitted that he couldn’t remember where he’d last seen the biscuit. Jimmy Carter reportedly once sent the card to the dry cleaners in the pocket of his suit.