"At one point during the Clinton administration," Shelton writes, "the codes were actually missing for months. [...] That's a big deal -- a gargantuan deal."
Shelton claims the story has never been released before, but Ret. Air Force Lt. Col Robert Patterson told a very similar account in his own book, published seven years ago.
Patterson was one of the men who carried the football, and he says it was literally the morning after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke that he made a routine request of the president to present the card so that he could swap it out for an updated version.
realcaseyrollins@social.freetalklive.com 2 years ago
@admin
> New book claims
I'm generally inclined to view claims reserved for books as dubious at best
admin@exploding-heads.com 2 years ago
The ABC article was published in 2010, so the book is not so new anymore.
realcaseyrollins@social.freetalklive.com 2 years ago
@admin My complaint was not that it was new, but that it was saved for a book rather than shared with the public for free.