The issue focused on the campaign of former President Bill Clinton, who was once in his second term.

"In all its political travails, we have an election and a president that is now being held for a second time," said John E. Atchison Jr., the national security editor of The New York Times. "It's so important to make sure that this does not result in any kind of bad policy or anything like that. It's about American values, it's about our military."