Bill Clinton
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Bill Clinton was President of the United States for two terms, from 1992 to 1999.
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- Doubled the number of active Border Patrol field agents as almost his first act in office
- Signed the 1999 Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act into law
- 1998-08-20 Operation Infinite Reach, a US cruise missile strike on purported terrorist bases in Afghanistan and the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan (which the United States claimed was helping Osama bin Laden), in retaliation for bombings (masterminded by Osama) of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania which killed 224 people (including 12 Americans) and injured 5,000 others. Clinton was criticized for trying to use the attacks to draw attention away from the Lewinsky scandal.
Negative Points
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- 2006-09-19 Clinton and the Bloggers: Too Close for Comfort by Micah Sifry: some particular criticisms of Clinton
Notes
- A story has been circulating that the government of Sudan offered to hand Osama bin Laden over to the Clinton administration, and Clinton declined. This story has apparently been discredited (need sources). This story was apparently widely used as a rebuttal to accusations that the Bush administration was given repeated opportunities to take out Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before invading Iraq, and declined because doing so would have removed much of their justification (need sources).