It's way, way, worse than that. Clinton ran off a lot of the best people and put purely political folks in their places. In addition, Clinton people were doing the hiring and firing for his eight years.
Bush '41 was in office just over seven months when 9/11 happened and therefore if he had any inclination to clean house at the CIA and elsewhere in the IC he was too pressed by events to do so. Instead, he let the neocons expand the whole mess without any concern for what sort of expansion he was getting.
Only then do you get the eight years of Bathhouse Barry.
The top seniority slots are all filled with people Clinton put there or that his choices put there. The real disaster was Clinton.
He knew exactly how to buy off or get rid of any and all Republicans who wouldn't go along with his game. With visions of cutting up the fatted calf and Bill Clinton giving them the choicest cuts, overall Republicans were more anxious to get rid of Gingrich and Delay than the democrats were. The fact that both were eventually acquitted tells you all you really need to know. With those two gone, Clinton had free reign to turn every agency into a part of his political machine.
Their "ethics violations" (no matter what their personal failings in their private lives) were that they had ethics. They both intended to deliver what Conservatives expected with whatever graft and greed that sloshed around taking a back seat to their delivering on what they told voters they would deliver.
Most Republicans, though were chomping at the bit to get down to the serious business of making money without the hassle of fighting over little things like what they promised the people who elected them.
This is still the Clinton machine going after Trump, not Barry other than Barry being a nice patsy if something goes awry. The people going after Trump hammer are all Clinton loyalists who served Barry only to the extent that Bill and Hillary found it useful for them to do so. True, Barry put in his own crop of Izlame Ick criminals and anti-American jihadists, but the machinery was and still is run by the Clintons.
JMHo
You sound like one who knows of what he speaks.
Very good analysis, makes sense logically
Bush 43.
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 41st POTUS
George W. Bush, 2001-2009, 43rd POTUS.