Did this partition of data prevent any Islamic terrorist connections from being made so the Clintons could blame the 'vast right-wing conspiracy' and muzzle what was growing outrage over the events at Waco?
I wouldn't put it past the Clintons, (but wait! there's more!!). This would not only allow painting disgruntled gun-owning white men as terrorist stock, but preserve the feel-good climate of safety and security (allowing the economy to continue to balloon), making the WTC bombing look like an isolated incident, not one in an escalating series of attacks.
In retrospect, if TWA 800 was brought down by a missile (as numerous witnesses claimed to have seen), Terry Nichols' wife had connections to terrorists in the Philippines (or Terry did), these could have been part of a series of attacks which finally culminated in an undeniable terrorist attack on US soil.