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John Miller (born 1958 or 1959) was the Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counterterrorism of the
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. He was the former Associate Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analytic Transformation and Technology. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Director of Public Affairs for the
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(FBI), where he was the bureau's national spokesman. Miller is also a former
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reporter and
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, perhaps best known for conducting a May 1998 interview with
Osama bin Laden Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...
in
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. Miller was named a senior correspondent for
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on October 17, 2011. In this capacity, Miller reported for all CBS News platforms and broadcasts, including ''
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'' and occasionally for ''
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''.John Miller
biography on CBS.com.


Background and personal life

Miller is the son of Lucinda and John J. Miller, a syndicated columnist and freelance writer
''The New York Times'', November 24, 2002.
whose range of roles included Hollywood gossip columnist, foreign correspondent, Broadway critic, crime investigator, and political pundit, "My dad wrote seven columns under six different names... Antonio from Rome. Pierre from Paris. Nigel from London," Miller has said. His father was also a close friend of Luciano crime family boss
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, whose wife, Lauretta, was Miller's godmother.John Miller: CBS's Inside Man
Men's Journal, March 2013.
Raised in
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, Miller attended Montclair High School, where he developed his interest in news and reporting by taking photos for sale to newspapers and ditching school in order to go to press briefings. In 2002, Miller married Emily Altschul, daughter of banker and Goldman Sachs Group partner Arthur Goodhart Altschul Sr. and member of the
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and daughter of botanist
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. Miller's brother-in-law, Arthur Altschul, Jr., worked for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley before becoming chairman of Medicis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. His sister-in-law is former
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VJ,
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.


Career

Miller began work as a journalist in 1983 for WNEW, a local
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television station. From 1985 to 1994, he worked as an
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for
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, another local New York television station. During his tenure at the station, he conducted several interviews with
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. From 1994 to 1995, he served as the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (chief spokesman) for the New York City Police Department,John Miller Named Assistant Director of FBI Office of Public Affairs
FBI National Press Office, August 23, 2005.
a move that some of his colleagues considered "going over to the dark side." He was hired at the request of then Commissioner
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. Miller worked as an
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correspondent beginning in 1995. Using an
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agent in London as an intermediary, Miller was able to make contact with
Mohammed Atef Mohammed Atef ( ar, محمد عاطف, ; born Sobhi Mohammed Abu Sitta Al-Gohary, also known as Abu Hafs al-Masri) was the military chief of al-Qaeda, and was considered one of Osama bin Laden's two deputies, the other being Ayman Al Zawahiri, ...
to request an interview with Osama bin Laden in May 1998. Miller was instructed to travel to
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,
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, and was escorted over the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to meet bin Laden in a camp near
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. He asked bin Laden questions that were translated into Arabic by an al-Qaeda translator, but bin Laden's answers were not translated, so Miller was not immediately aware of what bin Laden was saying during the interview. During his tenure at ABC, Miller also covered the
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, where he sat alongside
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for the duration of the day listening in to radio conversations from the
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,
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and
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, informing Jennings and viewers of their content. In January 2002, Miller took the post of co-anchor with
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of the ABC News program, ''
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''. In January 2003, he left ABC News to rejoin Bratton, who by then was at the
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. Miller served as the police department's Bureau Chief for the Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, which included the Major Crimes Division, and the Emergency Services Division and the Special Investigations Section (SIS). While there, Miller launched Project Archangel which included the Automated Critical Asset Management System (ACAMS), among other platforms, and which has been adopted by other cities and states for ongoing risk-assessment of potential terrorist targets. Miller was also one of the original designers of the Los Angeles Joint Regional Intelligence Center (JRIC), which combines intelligence and analysis for the LAPD, LA Sheriff, and the FBI. In September 2005, Miller became the Assistant Director for Public Affairs at the
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in
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In this position, he was tasked with overseeing the FBI's internal and external communications, including relations with the news media and handling of fugitive publicity, community relations, and other communications support. Miller also established an Employee Communications Unit to build stronger internal communications to the bureau's 31,000 employees. Among his collateral duties was to serve on the Strategic Execution Team (SET) to establish performance measurement standards for intelligence operations across the FBI's 56 field offices. The system, adapted from the
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process used by major police departments, was overseen by then-
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. In 2011, Miller left his position at the FBI to work as a senior correspondent for CBS News. In 2013, he reported in the "Inside the NSA" episode of ''60 Minutes'' which was criticized for justifying the organization's spying on American citizens. In December 2013, Miller announced that he would be resigning from CBS in order to take a position as the Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence & Counterterrorism with the
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. Miller rejoined
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, who had earlier been announced as the new NYPD Commissioner by Mayor
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.


Awards and honors

Miller's journalistic awards include two
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s, a DuPont-Columbia Award, and nine
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.


Memberships and affiliations

He is a member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators and the
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. Miller is an instructor at the FBI's National Executive Institute, as well as the Leadership in Counterterrorism (LinCT) course and has attended training in organizational change at
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's
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as well as the
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at
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.


See also

*
List of television reporters Argentina Australia * Richard Carleton * Naomi Robson * Ray Martin *George Negus * Ian Leslie * Jana Wendt * Charles Wooley * Liam Bartlett * Tara Brown * Allison Langdon Brazil * Glória Maria * Ana Paula Padrão Canada *Ian Hanoma ...


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