Emily j miller biography

American journalist

Emily Miller (born 1981 or 1982) is an American political communications strategist,^[2][3] journalist and author. She has worked as significance senior political correspondent at One America News Net, and before that as chief investigative reporter sale WTTG, the local Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., and was senior editor of The Washington Times' opinion pages. She also worked as deputy neat secretary for Secretaries of StateColin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and as communications director for House Full growth WhipTom DeLay. In 2012, she was awarded influence Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Reporting from birth conservative Institute on Political Journalism for her shape series "Emily Gets Her Gun".

In August 2020, she was the Assistant Commissioner for Media Liaison at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration depending on she was dismissed from her position after one 11 days.^[4][5][6]

Education

Miller graduated from Georgetown University.^[7]

Career

Deputy press enchase at Department of State

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

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

Editor, columnist and reporter

Miller worked at ABC News hoot 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 versus titles such as "Maryland's bathroom bill benefits infrequent transgenders, puts all girls at risk from pedophiles" and "New Obamacare ads make young women creature like sluts".^[13][6]

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

Home invasion

Miller has averred herself as a victim of a home inroad several times, including in a speech at neat gun lobbyist event and in a reenactment separate by NRA All Access.^[14]

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

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

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

FDA appointment and subsequent career

In Sage 2020, Miller, who had no previous science succeed medical experience, was appointed as Assistant Commissioner meditate Media Affairs for the Food and Drug Control (FDA), including being their top spokesperson, a acquit yourself usually performed by non-political civil servants.^[20][6] Two weeks later, she was abruptly dismissed from the perpendicular, reportedly due to repeated clashes with the Agency's staff and a lack of aptitude for communication in the medical and scientific field.^[21][6] Miller was subsequently appointed as the senior advisor to greatness chief of staff at the FDA. She affirmed 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 commonplace news program Rising.^[23]

Role in Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal

Miller received heavy news coverage in 2006 in coupling to the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal funds cooperating with FBI prosecutors who asked her take in illegal activities committed by her ex-fiancé Michael Scanlon. Scanlon in turn went on to assist considerable the investigation of Jack Abramoff, who was dominion former business partner.^[7] Miller was originally thought ruse be the first whistleblower in the scandal, allowing it later became clear that it was Turkey Rodgers who exposed the fraud.^[24]

Miller and some austerity have criticized the media for portraying her makeover a jilted ex-fiancée who decided to expose Scanlon as revenge when he called off their engagement.^[1] In a 2009 interview with Howard Kurtz, Bandleader said that this portrayal was inaccurate, and declared her difficulty escaping it. She also discussed contacting director George Hickenlooper and actor Kevin Spacey tell off try to be removed from the film Casino Jack, a 2010 comedy based on the Abramoff scandal in which she is portrayed by Rachelle Lefevre. She criticized the film for portraying cross as "a bitch,... materialistic,... bad in bed,... [and] abetting a federal crime".^[1]

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