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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New York City stabbing spree suspect Ramon Rivera is escorted out of the 10th Precinct in New York City on Tuesday.
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3 unprovoked fatal stabbings across Manhattan show failures of criminal justice and mental health systems, city’s mayor says
Nov 20, 2024
Three unprovoked stabbings across Manhattan Monday morning that left two men and one woman dead show how the criminal justice and mental health systems fail New Yorkers, the city’s mayor said.
FILE - Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the LA Premiere of "The Four: Battle For Stardom" at the CBS Radford Studio Center on May 30, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs arrested in New York, his attorney tells CNN
Oct 10, 2024
Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who has faced a parade of sexual assault lawsuits and a federal human trafficking probe in the last year, has been arrested, the producer’s attorney tells CNN.
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Video ‘Never been anything like this’: John Miller on pager explosions aimed at Hezbollah 3:37
Sep 18, 2024
At least nine people were killed and 2,800 wounded in an attack that targeted pagers held by members of Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah across Lebanon. CNN chief intelligence analyst John Miller discusses.
Former President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Las Vegas on September 13, 2024.
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Trump safe after being targeted in second apparent assassination attempt
Sep 16, 2024
The FBI is investigating what it said is an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his Florida golf club Sunday, the second time in two months there’s been an apparent attempt on the former president’s life.
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Video What we know about person detained in what FBI calls an assassination attempt on Trump 3:46
Sep 16, 2024
CNN’s Kyung Lah reports on the person detained in connection with what the FBI is calling an apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
Edward Caban, Sheena Wright and Philip Banks III.
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Federal investigators seized phones at the homes of several top aides to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, according to sources
Sep 6, 2024
Federal investigators on Wednesday seized electronic devices from the homes of several top officials in New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, including the powerful police commissioner and two deputy mayors, according to multiple sources familiar with the probe.
Emergency response officials respond to a reported shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Wednesday.
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14-year-old student suspect in Georgia school shooting that left 4 dead will be booked tonight, officials say
Sep 5, 2024
The 14-year-old suspect in the fatal mass shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school will be booked Wednesday night, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said at an evening news conference.
Campaign signs and empty water bottles are seen on the ground of former President Donald Trump's rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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FBI discovered a DHS document describing improvised explosive devices during investigation of Trump’s would-be assassin
Aug 29, 2024
Among the documents Donald Trump’s would-be-assassin studied while formulating his plans for an attack on the former president was a public document from the Department of Homeland Security, describing different kinds of improvised explosive devices and the number of explosives needed to inflict casualties over certain distances, a senior law enforcement official told CNN.
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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Video 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.

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.