2026-10-08T06:00:11-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
多名消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，就在一周多前，白宫国土安全顾问斯蒂芬·米勒在联邦调查局总部为反恐探员举办的培训会议上发表了讲话。几天后，检察官以一名男子多次致电、发送令人不安的短信骚扰其妻子凯蒂为由，对其提起刑事指控。
前司法部官员认为此次到访不同寻常，因为历史惯例要求联邦刑事调查与政治官员保持隔离。特朗普政府和联邦调查局表示，米勒的到访是恰当的，并称这与其在白宫的职责以及政府打击政治暴力的整体重点相符。
据一位了解会议情况的消息人士和一名联邦调查局高级官员透露，米勒向探员表示，特朗普总统打击国内恐怖主义的倡议对他而言具有个人意义，他援引了2025年其好友、保守派组织“转折点美国”创始人查理·柯克遇刺一事。
这名联邦调查局高级官员称，米勒在发言中谈到联邦执法探员需要更主动地调查威胁案件，并告诉他们没有“太小”的案件，无论威胁是针对国会议员、配偶、朋友、亲人还是大学校园的演讲者。
这名联邦调查局官员表示，米勒的讲话反映了联邦执法部门的一项更广泛举措：通过加强对威胁和骚扰案件的调查，主动防范大规模伤亡事件，因为此类犯罪可能是暴力行为的前兆。
多名消息人士补充称，上周二的这场培训吸引了负责反恐事务的联邦调查局助理特别探员主管，以及来自美国国税局刑事调查处、国土安全调查局和美国特勤局等其他执法机构的官员参加。
一名白宫官员表示，鉴于米勒作为国土安全顾问的职责，他出席此次培训是恰当的。他的职责包括执行特朗普总统关于打击国内恐怖主义的行政命令。
“作为国土安全顾问，斯蒂芬·米勒会定期与所有执法机构就公共安全、国家安全和反恐事务进行互动，”一名白宫发言人告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
她补充称，米勒的任务是执行总统的行政命令，“调查、破坏并瓦解有组织的政治暴力和国内恐怖主义的所有阶段”。
联邦调查局发言人将该行政命令称为“联邦调查局在全国范围内打击国内恐怖主义和政治暴力威胁的关键指令”。
“斯蒂芬·米勒一直是这项工作的宝贵合作伙伴——此次培训会议非常高兴能邀请他参与讨论这一重要优先事项，”该发言人说道。
但多名前司法部官员告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他出席联邦调查局培训会议并不符合惯例，这违反了水门事件后确立的、历史上使司法部刑事调查免受白宫政治干预的准则。
他们表示，米勒此次出席活动的不同寻常之处还在于，他本人就是波士顿地区一起案件的受害者和潜在证人，该案涉及一名被指控网络跟踪凯蒂·米勒的男子。
这一角色因另一层因素变得更加复杂：米勒及其妻子曾多次要求联邦调查局华盛顿分局调查他们所称威胁或骚扰他们的政治活动人士及其他人。据几位了解此事的消息人士透露，在去年的一起无关案件中，斯蒂芬·米勒曾要求联邦调查局特工在其弗吉尼亚社区的政治活动团体中卧底。
“与受害者有关联的政治权贵人士无权胁迫联邦调查局主管按他们的意愿行事，如果他们利用政治身份施压，情况会更糟，”曾在司法部担任长期反恐检察官、经常为联邦调查局探员提供培训的杰弗里·布莱因霍尔特说道。
消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，在米勒作为特邀嘉宾出席反恐培训会议的前几天，联邦调查局华盛顿分局局长达伦·考克斯将该局两名最高级别的反恐探员调至其他岗位，原因是米勒家族投诉这两名探员在调查马萨诸塞州一名涉嫌发送嘲讽短信和语音邮件的男子的案件中行动不够迅速。
彭博法律率先报道了两人被调岗一事。
斯蒂芬·米勒发表演讲两天后，波士顿联邦检察官办公室以一项网络跟踪罪起诉约翰·A·普罗亚，指控其骚扰凯蒂·米勒及其家人。普罗亚已辩称无罪。
白宫官员表示，米勒夫妇并未直接与被调岗的探员交谈，也未要求进行人事变动。
一名白宫发言人表示，联邦调查局高层认定这两名探员“压制了对非常严重威胁的调查”，并单方面做出了调岗决定。
在联邦调查局提供的一份声明中，考克斯称：“这纯粹是华盛顿分局基于对任务需求的持续评估做出的人事决定。任何其他说法都是虚假的。”
联邦调查局副局长克里斯·拉伊亚在一份声明中称，此次人事变动是基于“多种因素”，而这些因素并未在媒体对该事件的报道中体现出来。
当被问及与米勒夫妇相关的调查时，一名联邦调查局发言人表示，该局“是基于适当的前提和涉嫌犯罪的证据推进这些案件的——并非因为白宫下令展开调查”。
这起波士顿案件至少是米勒夫妇施压联邦调查局调查的第二起涉嫌骚扰或威胁案件。
去年秋天，斯蒂芬和凯蒂·米勒曾要求弗吉尼亚州官员和联邦调查局调查当地阿灵顿的政治活动人士芭芭拉·维恩，原因是她在米勒家外抗议并分发印有米勒夫妇住址的传单，迫使米勒一家搬进了军事住房。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻此前曾报道，由于地方法官两次驳回搜查令申请，这起联邦案件陷入僵局。但米勒一再向司法部施压，要求采取行动，他要求联邦调查局反恐探员卧底，并定期致电弗吉尼亚东区联邦检察官办公室了解进展，据知情人士透露。
最晚至今年12月，尽管无法获得搜查维恩手机的令状，联邦调查局探员仍在采访维恩的邻居和熟人。一位消息人士称，截至今年夏天，该调查仍处于未结案状态，目前尚不清楚其最新进展。
负责调查此案的州检察官、阿灵顿和福尔斯彻奇联邦检察官帕里萨·德赫加尼-塔夫蒂今年早些时候正式拒绝提起诉讼，她在一份法庭文件中写道，“搜查令所得材料中没有任何内容支持刑事起诉”。
她的办公室正是起诉科林·德马科的同一机构，德马科今年早些时候因涉嫌企图谋杀管理和预算办公室主任拉塞尔·沃特而被州级逮捕。
据消息人士透露，在弗吉尼亚东区联邦检察官拒绝提起联邦指控后，该州检察官办公室接手了此案。
联邦调查局总部的此次培训围绕白宫去年秋天发布的一项行政命令展开，该命令名为“国家安全总统备忘录-7”。
该命令要求由联邦调查局牵头的联合反恐特遣队协调全国性战略，打击国内恐怖主义和政治暴力。它还责成总检察长将此类案件列为优先事项。
尽管没有正式的国内恐怖主义成文法，但司法部历来会使用多种其他刑事法律起诉暴力极端分子，并在量刑时援引恐怖主义相关加重处罚条款。
某些类型的指控，如向恐怖分子提供物质支持或煽动内乱，需要国家安全部门的咨询或批准。
去年12月，时任司法部长帕姆·邦迪向检察官和执法人员发布备忘录，扩大了可归类为国内恐怖主义案件的犯罪范围，例如泄露执法人员个人信息或为阻碍司法公正而游行示威。
该备忘录还明确指出，执法部门应重点关注那些持有“极端移民观点、激进性别意识形态和反美情绪”并愿意实施暴力行为的人。
普罗亚被指控违反的网络跟踪法——《美国法典》第18篇第2261A条第(2)(B)款——不属于与恐怖主义相关的罪名，也不需要在提起案件前获得司法部国家安全部门的批准。
但过去曾有将该法律用于针对公职人员的骚扰相关国家安全案件的先例。
尽管该行政命令的导火索是柯克遇刺事件，但众多执法官员告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，整体威胁环境确实有所升级。
除了近年来针对特朗普先生的多起暗杀企图外，众多高级政府官员仍持续面临可信且持续不断的威胁。
据直接了解情况的消息人士透露，沃特和卫生与公众服务部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪均因频繁且可信的威胁而配备了24小时安保团队。
另一位知情人士称，尽管邦迪已于数月前离开司法部，但她目前仍配备12名特工组成的安保团队，每周7天值守。
该消息人士补充道，针对她的威胁中，最大比例与司法部对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦案的处理有关。
一名联邦调查局高级官员强调，该局不仅关注针对特朗普政府官员的威胁案件，也关注针对其他人的案件，例如最近在圣安东尼奥逮捕的一名男子，他因对美国以色列公共事务委员会感到愤怒而被指控威胁德克萨斯州议会大厦。
尽管白宫辩称，米勒在联邦调查局培训中的发言之所以不算反常，是因为他的国土安全顾问身份，但他与联邦调查局和司法部的互动并不局限于反恐事务。
去年，在特朗普先生宣布华盛顿特区打击暴力犯罪行动并下令国民警卫队和联邦执法人员上街巡逻后，米勒和白宫国土安全副顾问托尼·索尔兹伯里一同出现在联邦调查局的一个指挥点。
类似的暴力犯罪打击行动后来也扩展到了孟菲斯市。
据直接了解情况的消息人士透露，自这两项举措生效以来，米勒每月都会与司法部执法部门负责人以及这些城市的特别探员主管举行会议，其中包括联邦调查局、美国法警局以及烟酒、火器与爆炸物管理局。
据直接了解此事的消息人士称，米勒还每周多次与司法部副部长办公室就欺诈和移民案件进行沟通。
在去年前联邦调查局高层官员提起的一起诉讼中，他们声称自己被非法解雇，并指控斯蒂芬·米勒向司法部副部长办公室施压，要求采取“与司法部内部一致的对称行动”，解雇、调岗或移除那些处理了令特朗普先生不满的事务的工作人员。
多名前司法部和联邦调查局官员告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他们记不起历史上曾有任何一位白宫官员像米勒这样，如此频繁且直接地与司法部的探员和检察官接触。
一位曾在白宫和司法部担任高级职务的前官员告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，当时人们对损害联邦调查局独立性的担忧非常严重，以至于总统到访联邦调查局总部前都会进行深入讨论。
除了极少数情况，如乔治·W·布什总统发表讲话感谢探员们在9·11调查中的工作，总统直接向联邦调查局员工发表讲话的情况极少。人们能回忆起的其他例子包括巴拉克·奥巴马总统使用联邦调查局总部的篮球场，以及布什在匡蒂科骑行。
“斯蒂芬·米勒在联邦调查局总部的出现，包括他的演讲，都违反了一项重要准则，”前联邦调查局特工、现任非营利组织“联邦调查局诚信项目”主席詹姆斯·戴维森说道。
“在官方事务或调查方面，白宫应几乎不与联邦调查局执行管理层接触，几乎不应与中层管理探员接触——尤其是在他和妻子本身就是受害者的调查中。”
Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke to agents at recent FBI training on domestic terrorism, sources say
2026-10-08T06:00:11-0400 / CBS News
White House homeland security adviser Stephen Miller spoke at a training conference for counterterrorism agents at FBI headquarters just over a week ago, days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, Katie, multiple sources told CBS News.
Former Justice Department officials called the visit unusual, given the historical norm of insulating federal criminal investigations from political officials. The administration and FBI have said Miller’s visit was appropriate, pointing to his role at the White House and the administration’s broader focus on cracking down on political violence.
Miller told the agents that President Trump’s initiative to counter domestic terrorism was personal to him, citing the 2025 assassination of his friend, conservative Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, according to a source who was briefed on the meeting and a senior FBI official.
In his comments, Miller spoke about the need for federal law enforcement agents to be more proactive in investigating threat cases and told them that no case is too small, whether the threats are directed toward a congressman, a spouse, friends, loved ones or a speaker at a college campus, the senior FBI official said.
The FBI official said that Miller’s remarks reflect a broader push by federal law enforcement to try to get out ahead of mass-casualty events by stepping up investigations into cases involving threats and harassment because those crimes can be precursors to violence.
The training on Tuesday of last week was attended by FBI assistant special agents in charge who specialize in counterterrorism, as well as officials from other law enforcement agencies, including IRS Criminal Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Secret Service, multiple sources added.
A White House official said that Miller’s presence at the training was appropriate, given his role as homeland security adviser. In that capacity, he is tasked with carrying out Mr. Trump’s executive order on countering domestic terrorism and political violence.
“As Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller interacts with all law-enforcement agencies on a regular basis related to public safety, national security, and counterterrorism,” a White House spokesperson told CBS News.
She added that Miller is tasked with carrying out the president’s executive order to “investigate, disrupt, and dismantle all stages of organized political violence and domestic terrorism.”
An FBI spokesperson called the executive order “a critical directive for this FBI’s work to combat domestic terrorism and political violence threats all across the country.”
“Stephen Miller has been a valued partner in this work – and the conference was thrilled to have him be a part of discussing the important priority,” the spokesperson said.
But multiple former Justice Department officials told CBS News that his participation at an FBI training conference is not customary, and runs afoul of the post-Watergate norms that historically insulated the Justice Department’s criminal investigations from political interference by the White House.
His appearance at the event is also unusual because he is an alleged victim and potential witness in the Boston-area case involving the man accused of cyber-stalking Katie Miller, they said.
That role is further complicated by the fact that Miller and his wife have repeatedly asked the FBI’s Washington Field Office to investigate political activists and others they allege have threatened or harassed them. In an unrelated case last year, Stephen Miller asked the bureau to allow agents to go undercover in his Virginia neighborhood’s political activist group, several sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.
“Politically well-connected people who are related to victims do not have a right to jawbone FBI supervisors to do what they want them to do, and if they are political and throwing around their political connections, it’s even worse,” said Jeffrey Breinholt, a longtime former counterterrorism prosecutor at the Justice Department who frequently provided training to FBI agents.
In the days leading up to Miller’s appearance as a guest speaker at the terrorism training session, the two most senior counterterrorism agents in the FBI’s Washington Field Office were transferred to other roles by its leader, Darren Cox, after the Miller family complained the agents were not moving swiftly enough on an investigation into a man in Massachusetts who was allegedly sending taunting texts and voicemails, sources told CBS News.
Their removal was first reported by Bloomberg Law.
Two days after Stephen Miller made his presentation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston charged John A. Proia with one count of cyberstalking Katie Miller and her family. Proia has pleaded not guilty.
White House officials have said that the Millers did not speak directly to the agents who were reassigned, nor did they ask for the personnel change.
A White House spokesperson said that senior FBI leadership determined the agents were “stifling investigations into very serious threats and made a unilateral decision to remove them.”
In a statement provided by the FBI, Cox said: “This was a personnel decision made at the Washington field office level alone based on our constant evaluation of mission needs. Any suggestion otherwise is false.”
Chris Raia, the deputy director at the FBI, said in a statement that the personnel decision was based on “a number of factors” that have not been reflected in the media’s reporting on the incident.
Asked about investigations related to the Millers, an FBI spokesperson said the bureau “pursued these cases based on appropriate predicate and evidence of alleged crimes — not because the White House ordered an investigation.”
The Boston case is at least the second one that the Millers pressed the FBI to bring related to alleged acts of harassment or alleged threats.
Last fall, Stephen and Katie Miller asked Virginia state officials and the FBI to investigate local Arlington political activist Barbara Wien after she protested outside their home and distributed flyers containing their address, prompting the Millers to move into military housing.
The federal case hit roadblocks after a magistrate judge twice rejected a search warrant, CBS News previously reported. But Miller repeatedly pressured the Justice Department to act, asking FBI counterterrorism agents to go undercover and regularly calling the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia for updates, sources with knowledge said.
As recently as December, FBI agents were interviewing Wien’s neighbors and acquaintances, despite not being able to obtain a warrant to search her phone. CBS News could not determine the status of the investigation, which remained open as recently as this summer, one of the sources said.
The state prosecutor who was investigating the case, Arlington and Falls Church Commonwealth Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, formally declined to bring charges earlier this year, writing in a court filing that “nothing in the proceeds of the search warrant supports criminal prosecution.”
Her office is the same one that is prosecuting Colin DeMarco, who was arrested earlier this year on state charges of attempting to murder Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought.
Her office brought the case after federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia declined to bring federal charges, sources told CBS News.
The training at FBI headquarters was centered on an executive order issued by the White House last fall known as “National Security Presidential Memorandum-7.”
That order called on the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force to coordinate a national strategy for combating domestic terrorism and political violence. It also tasked the attorney general with prioritizing such cases.
While there is no formal domestic terrorism statute, the Justice Department has historically used a variety of other criminal laws to charge violent extremists and pursued terrorism enhancements at sentencing.
Some types of charges, such as providing material support to terrorists or civil disorder, require consultation or approval by the National Security Division.
In December, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo to prosecutors and law enforcement that broadened the scope of the kinds of crimes that might be pursued as domestic terrorism cases, such as doxxing members of law enforcement or parading with the intent to obstruct the administration of justice.
The memo also made it clear that law enforcement should focus on people with “extreme viewpoints on immigration, radical gender ideology, and anti-American sentiment” who are willing to commit acts of violence.
The cyberstalking law that Proia is charged with violating — 18 USC 2261A(2)(B) — is not considered a statute that is associated with terrorism-related offenses or that requires any sign-off from the Justice Department’s National Security Division before a case can be brought.
However, it has been used in the past in connection with some national security cases involving harassment targeting public officials.
Although the executive order was sparked by Kirk’s killing, numerous law enforcement officials have told CBS News that there is a heightened threat environment more generally.
In addition to the multiple assassination attempts targeting Mr. Trump in recent years, numerous senior government officials continue to receive credible and pervasive threats.
Both Vought and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have 24/7 security details due to the frequent and credible threats they receive, sources with direct knowledge told CBS News.
Bondi, meanwhile, still maintains a 12-agent detail seven days a week despite having left the Justice Department months ago, a source with direct knowledge said.
The largest percentage of the threats directed toward her relate to the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, the source added.
A senior FBI official stressed that the bureau is not only focused on threats cases involving Trump administration officials, but also cases targeting others as well, such as a recent arrest in San Antonio of a man who is accused of threatening the Texas State Capitol because of anger he felt toward the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Although the White House suggested that Miller’s speech at the FBI training was not unusual because of his homeland security position, his interactions with the FBI and Justice Department extend beyond issues of counterterrorism.
Last year, after Mr. Trump announced a violent crime crackdown in Washington, D.C. and ordered the National Guard and federal law enforcement to patrol the streets, Miller and White House Deputy Homeland Security Advisor Tony Salisbury both appeared at an FBI command post together.
A similar violent crime crackdown was later expanded to Memphis as well.
Since both initiatives took effect, Miller has been holding monthly meetings with the heads of the Justice Department’s law enforcement components and special agents in charge in those cities — including the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, sources with direct knowledge say.
Miller is also in touch multiple times a week with the Deputy Attorney General’s office to discuss fraud and immigration cases, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
In a lawsuit filed last year by former top FBI officials who alleged they were unlawfully terminated, they claim that Stephen Miller was pressuring the Deputy Attorney General’s office to take “symmetrical action at the FBI as had been happening at DOJ” by firing, re-assigning or removing staff who worked on matters that displeased Mr. Trump.
Multiple former Justice Department and FBI officials told CBS News they could not recall any other time in history where a White House official has had such frequent and direct contact with agents and prosecutors at the Justice Department the way Miller has.
One former official who has worked in senior positions at both the White House and Justice Department told CBS News that there was so much concern about the appearance of compromising the bureau’s independence that in-depth discussions took place before a president visited FBI headquarters.
In addition to a few rare instances where presidents have directly addressed the FBI staff, such as President George W. Bush’s address to thank them for their work on the 9/11 investigation, the only other examples people could recall included when President Barack Obama used the basketball court at the FBI’s headquarters and when Bush went biking at Quantico.
“Stephen Miller’s presence at FBI headquarters, including his speech, is a violation of an important norm,” said James Davidson, a former FBI agent who now serves as president of the nonprofit FBI Integrity Project.
“The White House should have little official contact with FBI executive management and virtually no contact with FBI middle management regarding official matters or investigations — especially one in which he and his wife are victims.”