After reading multiple State Dept. briefings and UN Security Council speeches from the Clinton years, it is clear that they made a lot of noise, used colorful language in their threats against terrorism and Osama/Usama, and it also clear that they did nothing substantial about it. The UN played the same game, threats, then nothing -with the added insistence that we must negotiate and not use military force to go after Bin Ladin and co. I'm sure Osama was shaking in his boots.
The 1999 Report on Terrorism, very tidy and colorful on the State Dept website (see link above) lists attack after attack from the militant Muslims. Added info on the Report includes names of terrorist organizations, locations, and weapons when known. They show us they "cared" enough about terrorism to study it and provide us with these details. The question then becomes, if they knew all this -as they clearly did- why didn't they do anything about it? Clinton and his staff often say things like "you know that we've worked hard to fight the war on terrorism," the press jumps on the multiple soundbites and once again refuses to ask, "what have you done?"
He left so many parting gifts for the new President, a mass of last minute executive orders which included new arsenic standards, turning ANWR into a national monument to guarantee a fight for oil, the pardons. It could be argued that Clinton never expected Gore to win this election. I do believe he is capable of willfully planning and executing a series of parting gifts to hamper and hurt George W. Bush and his Presidency.