Of course, he wasn't purging liberals. From the Center for Security Policy, July 15, 1994:

What's in Store?

In private meetings with other senior DI officials, MacEachin -- who is said to have claimed that he is acting on behalf of Director Woolsey -- laid down the real objectives of his reorganization plan:

Consolidating and institutionalizing changes already made.

This would involve, among other things, "purging the culture of the 1980s" at the CIA. No one knows exactly what this means. It could be interpreted as a sign that the Administration wants to purge a so-called "Cold War mindset" from DI products. (Indeed, MacEachin, as an analyst in the Agency's Soviet Affairs Bureau and former head of the CIA Arms Control Intelligence Staff, has long been susceptible to the moral equivalency and multilateralist notions that underpin much of the New-World-Order-think.)

On the other hand, the "1980s culture" that the DDI wants to purge may be that instituted under former CIA Directors William Casey and Robert Gates designed to maximize the quality and utility of intelligence analysis by encouraging competition in analysis, incorporating alternative scenarios and publishing dissenting points of view.

Assuring that CIA briefings coincide with Administration policy and cannot lead policy makers to accuse the Agency of "disloyalty." MacEachin was quoted as having actually said in a recent meeting with senior CIA officials: "Analysts must recognize that if they give a briefing which deviates too much from official policy, they may be accused by Clinton Administration officials of being disloyal."

Given the bang-up job (sorry) that the CIA did pre-9/11, why didn't this shake up happen sooner? I don't support political purges of the Intelligence Community (the CIA is only one of many members of the IC) but I do support cleaning out deadwood and those who let an agenda get in the way of doing their jobs. As for those who leaked classified information, they should be prosecuted as I would be if I did the same thing. Those of us trusted to handle classified information are supposed to be, of necessity, held to a high standard of accountability.