Indeed he did - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
Bill Clinton's excesses brought him impeachement......and now this....."But as often happens, a legitimate debate among analysts was misused by many during the 1990s to either try to inflate the Chinese threat or to downplay it or ignore it for political reasons. This latter group was lead -- not by some "close-knit fraternity" of analysts out to fool the government -- but by Bill Clinton himself. Clinton went so far as to declare certain collection activities against China as "off-limits" and also put certain topics off-limits as well. In practice that meant, while we knew what was going on, we were not allowed to say some things, or to officially report certain obvious conclusions"
Clinton is the absolute worst US president in history and that's saying a lot when you consider that Harding, Carter, FDR, and LBJ are in the running for that "honor."