The charges specified against Slick in the impeachment were simply the wrong charges. There were enough REAL gangster-type criminal charges that SHOULD have sunk him, long before they got to the national security aspect of things.
But in their wisdom, the House Republicans piloting the Articles of Impeachment were persuaded the “lesser” charges of sexual indiscretions would be “sufficient” to take Slick out. Still, we may have dodged an even more dangerous bullet, in that Al Gore would then have become President, and the consequences of that alternative history may be too terrible to contemplate.
True, I think an incumbent Algore would probably have been difficult to defeat.