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.
Well, it's not unknown for a journalist to look for a source that will give them the story the journalist wants.