Sean Penn’s Meeting with ‘El Chapo’ Reminiscent of ABC’s Miller and Bin Laden Interview, But Legally Questionable

In a move reminiscent of then-ABC journalist John Miller’s 1998 interview of deceased terrorist Osama Bin Laden, actor Sean Penn has interviewed the Western Hemisphere’s most notorious drug lord and fugitive under legally questionable circumstances.

Only three years before the tragic al-Qaeda terrorist attacks of 9/11, then-ABC journalist John Miller and a small crew traveled under clandestine circumstances through the border regions of Pakistan and into Afghanistan. Their purpose was to interview Osama Bin Laden, who was at the time not as reviled or well known as he would be three years later, but a terrorist nonetheless.