Miller served as the deputy press secretary at the U.S. Department of State for Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. Before this, Miller worked as communications director for House Majority Whip Tom DeLay. 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. After this, she worked at The Washington Times as a columnist and senior editor of their opinion pages. In 2012, Miller was awarded the Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Reporting by the Institute on Political Journalism for her Washington Times column series "Emily Gets Her Gun," in which she describes her attempt to legally acquire and register a handgun in Washington D.C. after experiencing a home invasion. In 2013, Miller was awarded the David & Goliath Award by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. In, 2013, Miller published a book expanding upon her work in this series, titled Emily Gets Her Gun: But Obama Wants to Take Yours. In April 2014, Miller announced that she was going to join WTTG, a Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., as chief investigative reporter. In June 2016, she moved to One America News Network as their senior political correspondent.
Controversies
Colin Powell interview
In 2004, while working as deputy press secretary to Secretary of State 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 " every attempt to get NBC to finish up".
Miller received heavy news coverage in 2006 in connection to the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal after cooperating with FBI prosecutors who asked her about illegal activities committed by her ex-fiancé Michael Scanlon. Scanlon in turn went on to assist with the investigation of Jack Abramoff, who was his former business partner. Miller was originally blamed as the first whistleblower in the scandal, although it later became clear that it was Tom Rodgers who exposed the fraud. Miller and some others have criticized the media for portraying her as a jilted ex-fiancé who decided to expose Scanlon as revenge when he called off their engagement. In a 2009 interview with Howard Kurtz, Miller said that this portrayal was inaccurate, and described her difficulty escaping it. She also discussed contacting director George Hickenlooper and actor Kevin Spacey to 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 inaccurately portraying her as "a bitch,... materialistic,... bad in bed,... abetting a federal crime".
Home invasion
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. In a column in The Washington Times, and in her book Emily Gets Her Gun: But Obama Wants to Take Yours, she recounted the event as an outdoors encounter with a burglar who was leaving the home as she returned. 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."
