He is the co-owner and CEO of Business Exposure Reduction Group (BERG) Associates, LLC, and the co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
In 1993, Johnson left government work to join the private sector, "going on to build a dual career as a business consultant and a pundit on intelligence issues".
[6][7] In July 2001, two months before the September 11 attacks,[1] Johnson wrote a New York Times op-ed titled "The Declining Terrorist Threat", arguing that "terrorism is not the biggest security challenge confronting the United States, and it should not be portrayed that way".
[4] In 2003, Johnson said that while he did not condone torture, he suggested that a "sleep deprivation and reward system" might be useful for getting information from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
[9] Johnson became a strong critic of the Bush administration in May 2003 for its conduct of the war in Iraq and, a few months later, for its role in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson.
"[13][non-primary source needed] Johnson claimed that Republicans were in possession of the tape and it "is being held for the fall to drop at the appropriate time."
"[16][non-primary source needed] In March 2017, Andrew Napolitano said on Fox & Friends that GCHQ, Britain's signals intelligence service, had wiretapped Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign on orders from President Obama.