Emily J. Miller

Miller served as the deputy press secretary at the U.S. Department of State for Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.[8] Before this, Miller worked as communications director for House Majority Whip Tom DeLay.

In 2004, while working as deputy press secretary for Colin Powell, Miller was criticized when she attempted to abruptly end an interview he was giving to Meet the Press. She instructed the cameraman to stop filming Powell, although Powell finished the interview after instructing Miller to allow him to continue. A spokesman for the State Department later defended Miller, saying that she had ended the interview because it had run long despite her "[making] every attempt to get NBC to finish up".[8][9][10][11][1]

Miller worked at ABC News as an associate producer for the television shows This Week and Good Morning America. She then went on to become a senior editor for Human Events and a gossip columnist for Politics Daily.[12][1] After this, she worked at The Washington Times as a columnist and senior editor of their opinion pages,[10][6] where she wrote opinion pieces with titles such as "Maryland's bathroom bill benefits few transgenders, puts all girls at risk from pedophiles" and "New Obamacare ads make young women look like sluts".[13][6]

In April 2014, WTTG, a Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., announced their hiring of Miller as their chief investigative reporter.[12] In June 2016, she moved to One America News Network as their senior political correspondent.

Miller has described herself as a victim of a home invasion several times, including in a speech at a gun lobbyist event and in a reenactment produced by NRA All Access.[14]

In 2012, Miller was awarded the Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Reporting by the conservative Institute on Political Journalism for her "Emily Gets Her Gun" column series in The Washington Times, in which she describes her attempt to legally acquire and register a handgun in Washington D.C. after experiencing a home invasion.[15] She recounted the home invasion as an outdoors encounter with a burglar who was leaving the home as she returned.[16]

In 2013, Miller was awarded the David & Goliath Award by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.[17] In the same year, Miller published a book titled Emily Gets Her Gun: But Obama Wants to Take Yours, based on her Washington Times column.[18]

In 2015, Erik Wemple of The Washington Post published several articles criticizing Miller for her inconsistent retellings of the incident, and highlighting discrepancies between her descriptions and police reports. Wemple accused her of exaggerating the story to advance her career as a gun lobbyist, saying, "Nothing animates lobbying pushes quite like the story of a criminal invading the home of a law-abiding citizen."[18][19]

In August 2020, Miller, who had no previous science or medical experience, was appointed as Assistant Commissioner for Media Affairs for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including being their top spokesperson, a role usually performed by non-political civil servants.[20][6] Two weeks later, she was abruptly dismissed from the position, reportedly due to repeated clashes with the Agency's staff and a lack of aptitude for communicating in the medical and scientific field.[21][6] Miller was subsequently appointed as the senior advisor to the chief of staff at the FDA. She described Regeneron's antibody cocktail, which was provided to then-President Donald Trump after he tested positive for COVID-19, as being "like a cure" for the disease.[22]

In June 2021, Miller guest hosted The Hill's daily news program "Rising."[23]