Jack's dates are correct. I was thinking Rumsfeld, who was previously SecDef under Ford. Cheney was White House chief of staff then.

Some cuts did begin under GHWB--and some changes in priority within the intel community, which we later came to regret. For example, 600 FBI counterintelligence agents were shifted from those duties to organized crime when the Soviet Union collapsed. The more serious cuts in both the IC and the military, however, came under Clinton. Cashing in the "peace dividend."