By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- The city’s new police chief is considering hiring John Miller, a news anchor and correspondent for ABC’s “20/20,” as an adviser on homeland security, and Miller says he’s interested in the job.
Miller was Chief William Bratton’s deputy police commissioner for public affairs when Bratton was commissioner of the New York Police Department in the 1990s. Bratton resigned in 1996 and was hired by Los Angeles in October.
Rather than handling press relations, Miller would advise Bratton on issues of counterterrorism as part of an expanded homeland security bureau in the LAPD, Bratton told the Los Angeles Times for Thursday’s editions.
Miller, who co-wrote a book on security challenges facing the U.S. government following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, expressed interest in the job.
line “It’s a very exciting possibility and we are still talking,” Miller said.
As a newsman, he is best-known for a 1998 interview in which Osama bin Laden threatened to launch attacks on U.S. civilians.
A high level source at ABC News, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Miller was considering an offer to join the LAPD. “We know that John has spoken with the chief about the job and we have given him our blessing,” the source said.