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Ex-President Bill Clinton, who collected FBI files on political opponents, targeted witnesses against him with IRS audits and hired private detectives to intimidate his ex-girlfriends, complained Tuesday that the Republican Party had a political "destruction machine." "They have a destruction machine. We don't have a destruction machine," Clinton told the Democratic Leadership Council in an address at New York University. The ex-president charged that "extreme right-wing elements in the media" were responsible for smearing Democrats on national security issues, saying he was particularly dismayed by attacks on Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. "What was done to Tom Daschle was...