by Mike Gray

During the 2008 political campaign, child actor Matt Damon expressed misgivings about allowing an intellectual pygmy like Sarah Palin to have access to the nuclear codes. Regardless of the merits or shortcomings of Palin, it looks as if President Bill Clinton has already fulfilled Damon’s apprehensions:

One who got the Clinton treatment up close and personal was Retired Lt. Col. Robert “Buzz” Patterson. In an exclusive interview with Accuracy in Media’s Roger Aronoff, Lt. Col. Patterson reminisced about his service with Clinton as senior military aide from 1996 to 1998.

“During that period he was the man responsible for the President’s Emergency Satchel, also known as the ‘Nuclear Football,’” Aronoff writes. “It is the black bag with the nation’s nuclear capability that is supposed to be with the president at all times.”

“I happened to be the first person on President Bill Clinton’s schedule the morning that the Monica Lewinsky scandal hit the press and became international news,” Lt. Col. Patterson told Aronoff. “It also corresponded with the time that I asked President Clinton to produce the codes so I could swap the codes out with new codes—we did that from time to time—and President Clinton confessed that he had, in fact, lost the codes.”

But that’s not the half of it. Read Malcom Kline’s Accuracy in Academia article here.

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