Emily J. Miller

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Emily J. Miller is a press aide 1 who controversially ordered a cameraman to stop filming an interview with then-Secretary of State Colin Powell from Jordan on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert on May 16 2004. When NBC's Jordanian cameraman was made to film palm trees instead of Powell, Russert called it "attempted news management gone berserk," 2 and indicated that nothing like it had ever happened in his time as the show's host.

Miller formerly worked as a spokesperson for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) during the 2000 Florida presidential election recount.3 As press secretary to then-Majority Whip DeLay, she scolded Washington Post writer Peter Perl, who was preparing a profile of Delay, screaming: "You lied! . . . You betrayed him! You twisted his words! . . . We don't know you. You don't exist. . . . You are dead to us."4