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All policies have negative consequences. The hope is that positive consequences will outweigh those that are negative. For example, in the late 1990s Pres. Clinton placed recruitment restrictions on the CIA that caused its staff to shrink by half. Clinton also cut CIA and military funding substantially. The 9/11 terrorist attacks followed. Bill Clinton also replaced regulatory authority under Glass-Steagall that gave the SEC oversight of investment derivatives, like those of the subprime mortgage crises, with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that…