Former U.S. counter-terrorism official and frequent CNN guest Larry Johnson labels the new TSA security measures and the agency’s failure to impose a uniform security system as “criminal negligence.”

In a blog post, TSA Punts on Security, Johnson, co-founder of BERG Associates and former deputy director in the U.S. State Dept.’s Office of Counter Terrorism, says the TSA’s procedures, which went into effect Jan. 4, “likely increase the chance that terrorists will succeed in putting a bomb onboard an in-bound commercial airliner.”

In a phone interview, Johnson told Tnooz that the new TSA procedures for flights in-bound into the U.S. revert to the “absurd notion” of “threat-based security,” which was in place prior to 9/11 when the FAA had responsibility for airline security and tried to “play Kreskin to figure out where the threat came from.”