John Miller's role -- and salary -- at LAPD rankles

Michael Gougis in the Daily News reports on the internal backlash at Parker Center over John Miller, the ex-journalist for ABC who police chief William Bratton is paying $157,289 a year to head the department's Counter-Terrorism Bureau. Miller has never been a cop, but when he was a reporter at ABC's program "20-20" he reported on global terrorism and interviewed Osama Bin Laden. Unfortunately, all of the quotes in the story from LAPD critics are anonymous -- but that's not surprising since messing with Miller would not be healthy in Bratton's new LAPD. Miller had been Bratton's chief spokesman and close advisor at the NYPD. He's defended in the piece by Joe Domanick, who interviewed Miller in Sunday Opinion in the L.A. Times.