Recall Gore was involved in the weapons deal with Iran and Russia?
...his story should have strongly impacted the presidential race between Gore and Governor Bush. It broke on Friday, the 13th, when the New York Times ran a front page story that Gore had signed this agreement in 1995 without telling Congress, in violation of several laws, including the underlying Iran-Iraq Arms Nonproliferation Act, known, ironically as the Gore-McCain act, after its chief sponsors.
The agreement allowed Russia to fulfill existing contracts with Iran, including submarines, torpedoes, anti-ship mines and tanks. One is left to wonder if part of the shipment may have been involved in the recent act of war against the U.S.S. Cole, killing seventeen Americans in the port of Aden. According to Senator McCain, who only found out about this when the New York Times reported it, after, they said, copies of the letter and related classified documents were provided to them by a concerned government official.
In addition, the agreement calls for Russia and the U.S. to seek to prevent the “undermining of the nuclear arms non-proliferation program,” yet it says that Moscow will continue to build a nuclear reactor, train the technicians in Russia, and deliver nuclear fuel to Iran through the year 2011. This clause, according to Bill Gertz of the Washington Times, “appears to violate a provision of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Act, which requires the Clinton administration to keep Congressional oversight committees fully informed of all issues related to nuclear weapons proliferation”.—————Gore’s Secret Agreement with Russia , by Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid, AIM, on November 3, 2000,
https://www.aim.org/media-monitor/gores-secret-agreement-with-russia/