Riley, I think you are getting your administrations mixed up, since your written words do not correlate with what has happened in the GWB administration.
GWB is the POTUS who sticks with dud appointees long after they have proved themselves incompetent or backstabbing scum. GWB stuck with that boob Tenet for years, when he should have *expletive deleted*it-canned him posthaste after 9/11. I think GWB has, to borrow a bit from Count Rugen, "An overdeveloped sense of loyalty," to faithless, bumbling bureaucrats.
Also, GWB gave Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
If the above counts as "trashing," I want some "trashing" from my boss.
FWIW, the CIA does need to be trashed. We need a modern-day James Jesus Angleton to go through the CIA, State Dept, and many other agencies with hammer & tongs.