Explain the purpose of President Clinton’s 1998 directive regarding U.S. infrastructure, which identified certain structural elements as part of the critical infrastructure of the United States. In what way is a nation’s infrastructure critical?

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Part of the nation’s infrastructure is referred to as the critical infrastructure.
It is that part of the infrastructure that is so vital to the United States that
the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a
debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public
health, or safety.

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