We have now established that in July 2001 he was assuring the country, via the New York Times, that any threat of terrorism was exaggerated.
I have never recovered from the attack the left launched on President Bush over the August 2001 PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing--a classified document, incidentally, the contents of which were leaked in May 2002 and got the "Bush Knew" ball rolling--and it rolled again during the 9/11 Commission only to be stopped by facts and was just pushed again by Kook Supreme Cynthia McKinney--who was hailed as seer by none other than a former CIA official named Melvin Goodman).
So, It just occurred to me to check if Johnson opened his yap on the "Bush Knew" accusations due to the August 2001 PDB and of course, he had:
The Out-of-Towner While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard.
excerpt (the memo was declassified during the 9/11 hearings at the urging of the left):
Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer and the State Department's counterterrorism chief from 1989-93, explained on MSNBC this afternoon, during a break in the hearings, why the PDB—let alone the Moussaoui finding—should have compelled everyone to rush back to Washington
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I submit had there been a real warning in the PDB (there was not) and "everyone" had rushed back to Washington, none other than Larry Johnson would have led the parade calling President Bush a liar who was manipulating Intelligence to instill fear of an exaggerated terrorism threat into Americans.
He makes me absolutely ill.
Ping to my 476.
Johnson writes on op-ed in July 2001 telling us terrorism is exaggerated and we're to believe him that he would have supported this administration if they had received a warning of imminent attacks and taken steps to thwart them.
He wrote his July piece because of the steps the new Bush Administration was already taking to prevent attacks. He wouldn't have believed them if they said they had a warning, yet he feels free to attack them with "everyone should have rushed back to Washington" over a historical PDB.
He is the most vile of liars and the fact that in his email threat he claimed to be merely telling the truth is beyond a joke. What filthy scum he and his group are.
Not only is Larry Johnson a scumbag, but reading between the lines of that Slate/Fred Kaplan article, I suspect that it is Larry Johnson himself who has been orchestrating a lot of the media assault against the Bush administration regarding 9/11, Iraq, WMDs, etc. Notice how Larry Johnson is the ONLY former or current security official interviewed/quoted in the article (other than when Kaplan is referring to testimony of Tenet, etc.), and Kaplan sets the whole piece up to make Johnson the ultimate expert passing judgment on the Bush administration.
It's as though Kaplan is writing the article as dictated by Larry Johnson. One has to suspect that Larry Johnson and his VIPS pals orchestrated this and many other articles in the MSM, and biased/incompetent 'journalists' like Kaplan are happy to play along. Notice how Kaplan doesn't even find any professional or ethical obligation to consider/present another view, he just writes a hit-piece according to the VIPS talking points.
Johnson is quoted in so many such articles as the AUTHORITY, without question or doubt, and all similar MSM articles promote the Johnson/VIPS line. No hint that just weeks before that infamous PDB in August 2001 it was Larry Johnson himself who was assuring the country and the world via the NY Times that the terrorism threat was greatly overstated.