From KALLISTE@delphi.comTue Oct  8 21:41:05 1996
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 17:57:04 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: What Happened to the Football?

                What Happened to the Football?

                    by J. Orlin Grabbe

        Craig Livingstone, the White House security chief hired 
by Hillary Rodham Clinton, wanted oversight of the "football". 

        The football is a cyptological communication mechanism 
carried everywhere with the President by aides from the 
White House Military Office. It contains the mechanism to 
which the President identifies himself in order to authorize a 
nuclear strike.  The authorization codes are changed daily by 
the National Security Agency.  It was such codes and nuclear 
SIOP options that Vince Foster and Hillary Rodham Clinton 
provided to the Israelis in the messiest espionage case in U.S. 
history.  (For more on SIOP, see "Allegations Regarding 
Vince Foster, the NSA, and Banking Transactions Spying, 
Part XXVIII".)

        No one, of course, really knows whether the football 
accompanies the President everywhere, such as on those 
secret midnight visits to the Marriott, or on those quiet cocaine 
forays back to Fayetteville.

        In a letter sent to George Stephanopolous after Vince 
Foster's demise, Craig Livingstone said he wanted to be in 
charge of the White House Military Office.  The job paid 
more, and (one assumes) Craig and Hillary could enhance 
their social prestige by exercising some control over the 
nuclear button.

        Well, Craig Livingstone has departed, and Bill Clinton is 
still here.  But if you want to know what is going on, ask the 
question:  What happened to the football?  

        Where has the football disappeared to on Clinton's 
recent campaign journey?  Did someone take it away from 
him?  Were they afraid he might do something rash in a 
miasma of coke-induced sleeplessness? 

        Has the countdown begun on Bill Clinton's tenure as 
President? If not, then where, pray tell, is the football?

October 8, 1996
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