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Gary Hart Column on Salon.com
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Well, the radar had the Zeros coming from hours away, but the operators thought they were clouds or an equipment malfunction.
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It turns out that the radar operators had an open telephone line to the White House that Sunday morning, and were telling Roosevelt -- but not Pearl Harbor -- about the blips. Oh the humanity!
This is wandering into tinfoil-hat territory.
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