John Miller: A Switch From Career Reporter To The National Intelligence

John Miller is best known as a broadcast journalist. He specialized in covering terrorism. Working for ABC News in 1998 in the position of reporter and anchorman, he is one of the few journalists who interviewed Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. As Miller developed his expertise, he was called to help local law enforcement. Later on, he integrated the nation’s intelligence services. He was the Assistant Director for Public Affairs at the FBI from 2005 to 2009. Now, he is the Associate DeputyDirector of National Intelligence for Analytic Transformation and Technology.

In the 1990‘s, Bin Laden declared a war on the United States. Al Qaeda’s leader confessed to Miller that he predicted a black day for America and that nothing will never be the same. Commenting on the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, Miller says that “it was a failure of imagination on the part of the intelligence community. In fact, it was a failure for everybody.”

Over the years, the Central Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency worked together in a seamless collaboration and proving to be an example of focused integration. Osama Bin Laden was declared dead on May 2, 2011. The death of Al Qaeda’s leader marks a significant success in the fight against terrorism although the war on terror does not end here.