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title: ""According to Ronald Kessler, the author of the 2009 book In the…"
date: 2019-01-19
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# "According to Ronald Kessler, the author of the 2009 book In the…

*January 19, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/hacking-the-presidents-dna/309147/](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/hacking-the-presidents-dna/309147/){target="_blank"}
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\"According to Ronald Kessler, the author of the 2009 book In the President's Secret Service, Navy stewards gather bedsheets, drinking glasses, and other objects the president has touched---they are later sanitized or destroyed---in an effort to keep would‑be malefactors from obtaining his genetic material. (The Secret Service would neither confirm nor deny this practice, nor would it comment on any other aspect of this article.) And according to a 2010 release of secret cables by WikiLeaks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton directed our embassies to surreptitiously collect DNA samples from foreign heads of state and senior United Nations officials\"\
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[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/hacking-the-presidents-dna/309147/](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/hacking-the-presidents-dna/309147/){target="_blank"}
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