According to his USNI byline, Byron retired in 1993, so if anything he's a Reagan-GHW Bush Administration military man. Don't be so quick to dismiss him. If you're going to throw around accusations like that, you really ought to take thirty seconds and use Google first.
Or perhaps everyone who served on active duty from 1992-2000 was guilty by association and should have been purged?
Post from the Wall Street Journal or the Investor's Business Daily, forget the Washington Post.