John Miller

Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst

John J. Miller is the Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst for CNN.
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Cast member Matthew Perry poses at the premiere for the television series "The Kennedys After Camelot" at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, California U.S., March 15, 2017.
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Multiple people charged in connection to Matthew Perry’s death
Aug 17, 2024
Multiple arrests have been made in connection with Matthew Perry’s death, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the situation.
An aerial view shows law enforcement members at the home of 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, named by the FBI as the "subject involved" in the attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 14, 2024.
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Investigators believe Trump’s would-be assassin flew a drone over rally site on the day of the shooting
Jul 20, 2024
Investigators believe the gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump may have used a drone on a reconnaissance trip to the rally site on the day of the shooting, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told CNN.
Police vehicles are seen around the house of Thomas Matthew Crooks in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, on July 14, 2024.
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19 lost minutes: Law enforcement failed to keep sight of Trump shooter, whose motive is still unclear to investigators
Jul 18, 2024
New details reveal more about Thomas Matthew Crooks and his actions leading up to his assassination attempt on Donald Trump. But his motive remains unclear.
Law enforcement officers work at the campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is empty and littered with debris Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Trump shooter requested Saturday off from work and told colleagues he’d be back at work Sunday, officials say
Jul 17, 2024
The shooter who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Saturday normally would have been at work that day, but he told his boss he needed that the day off because he had “something to do,” according to multiple law enforcement officials.
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What the Trump rally shooter told coworkers before the assassination attempt 2:42
Jul 17, 2024
CNN’s Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller shares new information about the shooter’s actions before former President Trump’s rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA - JULY 13: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring former U.S. President Donald Trump, killing one audience member and injuring another in the shooting. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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A shooting range, a gun store, and a ladder purchase: Tracking the Trump rally gunman’s movements leading up to his attack
Jul 16, 2024
As investigators continue to search for a motive behind the attempted assassination, they are scrutinizing Crooks’ actions in the days and hours before the shooting.
A man was found with a loaded gun, more than 100 rounds of ammunition and other weapons, according to police officials, in New York.
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Man arrested in New York City with a gun, 8 loaded magazines, an NYPD vest and other weapons, police say
Jun 13, 2024
The New York Police Department is investigating whether a man who was arrested Wednesday had plans to carry out an attack after he was pulled over during a traffic stop.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on June 6, 2024, in Phoenix.
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Trump completed pre-sentencing interview with New York probation office, source tells CNN
Jun 10, 2024
Former President Donald Trump completed his pre-sentencing interview with the New York City Department of Probation on Monday after his?hush money trial?conviction last month, a source familiar with the proceedings told CNN.
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump returns to the courtroom during his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 30, 2024. The jury in Donald Trump's hush money trial announced May 30, 2024 in a note to the court that it has reached a verdict, indicating that this would be delivered in less than an hour. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump scheduled for Monday pre-sentencing interview after hush money conviction
Jun 9, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled for a pre-sentencing interview with a probation officer Monday after his hush money trial conviction last month, according to a Trump campaign official and two sources familiar with the matter.
The logo for the Democratic National Convention is displayed on the scoreboard at the United Center in Chicago during a media walkthrough on January 18, 2024.
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Secret Service and Chicago police ramp up preparations for Democratic convention as protests loom
Jun 8, 2024
Secret Service and Chicago police officials are ramping up preparations for the Democratic National Convention in August, with officers receiving training ranging from First Amendment rights to handling violent protests and mass arrests.
RIVERHEAD, NEW YORK - JANUARY 16: Alleged Gilgo serial killer Rex Heuermann appears before Judge Timothy P. Mazzei with his attorney Michael Brown at Suffolk County Court on January 16, 2024 in Riverhead, New York. Heuermann has been indicted in the death of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Heuermann's arrest came more than a decade after the disappearance of four women whose bodies were found within a quarter mile of each other wrapped in hunting camouflage burlap along remote Gilgo Beach on Long Island's South Shore. (Photo by James Carbone-Pool/Getty Images)
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Gilgo Beach killings suspect expected to be indicted in killings of 2 additional women, sources say
Jun 6, 2024
Rex Heuermann, the suspect in the Gilgo Beach killings, is expected to be indicted Thursday on new murder charges in the killings of two additional women, multiple law enforcement sources tell CNN.
Former President Donald Trump leaves Manhattan Criminal Court after being found guilty in his hush money trial on May 30 in New York City.
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NYPD preparing to revoke Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun after felony conviction in New York
Jun 5, 2024
The New York City Police Department is preparing to revoke former President Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun, a senior police official told CNN.
U.S. Marines control the area as unidentified civilians dressed in protective suits prepare to enter the closed Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, to retreive mail that could be contaminated, February 4, 2004. Two days after the discovery of ricin in the mailroom of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, three Senate office buildings remained closed on Wednesday, displacing thousands of workers and raising echoes of a 2001 anthrax attack on the Capitol. No more ricin has so far been detected in the Capitol complex and no one is showing any signs of poisoning. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst LSD/GN
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Lessons from the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001
May 5, 2024
John Miller recounts investigation following the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.
Police officers detain pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had set up an encampment on the South Lawn at Columbia University in New York, on Thursday afternoon, April 18, 2024. The police moved Thursday afternoon to quell the protest at Columbia University, and began to arrest protesters at the encampment. (C.S. Muncy/The New York Times)
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Over 100 people arrested as NYPD breaks up pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University, law enforcement source says
Apr 19, 2024
At least 30 people were detained by New York Police Department officers, CNN witnessed, as police entered Columbia University on Thursday to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest that began a day earlier as the university’s president?testified before a House committee?about the school’s response to antisemitism.
Police are seen at the scene of a shooting on April 10, 2024, in Philadelphia.
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5 people have been arrested after a shooting in a West Philadelphia park that was filled with hundreds of people
Apr 11, 2024
Five people have been arrested and multiple firearms have been recovered after a Wednesday afternoon shooting in West Philadelphia, police say.
An individual in a vehicle attempted to gain entry to the Atlanta FBI field office, according to an FBI Atlanta spokesperson.
WSB
Police ID suspect after vehicle crashes into gate at the Atlanta FBI field office
Apr 2, 2024
Authorities have identified the suspect accused of ramming a vehicle through an entrance gate at the FBI’s Atlanta field office on Monday afternoon.

About

John J. Miller is the Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst for CNN. Miller joined the network in 2022 and will is based in the network’s New York bureau. He is a veteran award-winning journalist and experienced law enforcement and intelligence executive.

Prior to joining CNN, Miller served as Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counterterrorism of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In that role, Commissioner Miller oversaw the Intelligence Bureau, the Counterterrorism Bureau, and the NYPD’s partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Commissioner Miller is the former Deputy Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Analysis overseeing programs to improve analysis across the US government’s 16 intelligence agencies as well as the team that produced the President’s Daily Intelligence Briefing (PDB). Before that, he was an Assistant Director of the FBI, where he oversaw public affairs, community outreach and served as the bureau’s national spokesman.

Along with his law enforcement career, Miller has worked in journalism as a senior correspondent for WNBC-TV in New York, ABC News as a correspondent and anchor, CBS News reporting for CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News, and 60 Minutes. Miller is best known for conducting a May 1998 interview with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

He is a winner of the DuPont Silver Baton (“DuPont Award), two Peabody Awards and eleven Emmys. Miller was named the 2019 recipient of the prestigious FBI-NEIA Penrith Award for excellence in law enforcement leadership.?

Miller is also the co-author of the New York Times bestseller “The Cell: Inside the 9/11 plot” (Hyperion, 2002).

He is a member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Miller has been an instructor at the FBI’s National Executive Institute, as well as the Leadership in Counterterrorism (LinCT) course, and has received specialized training in management and organizational change from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Columbia University.