Scheer Ignorance

LA Times columnist Robert Scheer is a bit upset about the changes occurring in the Bush cabinet:

Out: Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose political epitaph should now read, "You break it, you own it" for his prescient but unwanted warning to the President on the danger of imperial overreach in Iraq.
Out: Top CIA officials who dared challenge, behind the scenes, the White House's unprecedented exploitation of raw intelligence data in order to sell a war to a Congress and a public hungry for revenge after 9/11.
Out: Veteran CIA counterterrorism expert and Osama bin Laden hunter Michael Scheuer, better known as the best-selling author Anonymous, whose balanced and devastating critiques of the Iraq war, the CIA and the way President Bush is handling the war on terror have been a welcome counterpoint to the "it's true if we say it's true" idiocy of the White House PR machine.
Meanwhile, incompetence begat by ideological blindness has been rewarded. The neoconservatives who created the ongoing Iraq mess have more than survived the failure of their impossibly rosy scenarios for a peaceful and democratic Iraq under U.S. rule. In fact, despite calls for their resignations - from the former head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. Anthony Zinni, among others - the neocon gang is thriving. They have not been held responsible for the "16 words" about yellowcake, the rise and fall of Ahmad Chalabi, the Abu Ghraib scandal, the post-invasion looting of Iraq's munitions stores and the disastrous elimination of the Iraqi armed forces.

Those dread Neocons are still around even though Gen. Zinni called for their resignation. Who is Zinni to call for the resignation of anyone in the cabinet? How about this Robert, I call for your resignation. Do I have the right to call for your resignation? Scheer continues:

So far, half a dozen of the nation's top spymasters have been forced out abruptly - a strange way to handle things at a time when bin Laden and al-Qaeda are still seeking to attack the United States. Ironically, this all comes as Goss is suppressing a lengthy study, prepared for Congress by the CIA's inspector general, that, according to an intelligence official who has read it, names individuals in the government responsible for failures that paved the way for the 9/11 attacks.
Thus Bush, with Goss as his hatchet man, is having it both ways: He can be seen to be cleaning house at the CIA - when he is simply punishing independent voices - while denying Congress access to an independent audit of actual intelligence failures.

But isn't capturing bin-Laden one of the biggest criticisms of the Bush administration? Three years out from 9/11 and Osama is still on the run, the CIA is responsible for gathering and moving on intelligence and they have failed. As with any organization that fails to do what it is chartered to, failure means changes. Why do you suspect Scheer is so upset; is it because the CIA was full of Clinton-era folks whom Scheer thinks are the "balance" needed, or more likely, the people who failed at their jobs are properly being relieved and they've complained to an anti-Bush columnist who has an axe to grind with the evil Neocons?