From the same New York Times:
"Intelligence Analyst" Larry C. Johnson: "The Declining Terrorist Threat (July 10, 2001)
Posted on 07/20/2005 10:12:47 PM EDT by Sam Hill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1447248/posts
Johnson had been out of the CIA for over ten years when he wrote that piece.
Seymour Hersh apparently gets fed BS from CIA vets regularly.