Retired CIA counterintelligence chief Susan Miller has stepped up in defense of former President Barack Obama and former CIA Director John Brennan. Miller, who played a role in crafting the 2017 assessment on the 2016 elections to evaluate the credibility of Russian interference, has recently appeared in mainstream media. She accuses Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and President Donald Trump of distorting the truth for their agendas. Essentially, it’s just another regular occurrence.
Of course, Miller ran to legacy media outlet NBC News to share her thoughts on this development (emphasis added):
The issue lies in the final report that was delivered, which contrasts with what Gabbard and Trump take issue with. The narrative crafted by Obama and supported by Brennan, Clapper, and others alleged that Trump had collaborated with Russia to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid. This narrative was embraced by mainstream media and various stakeholders, with the fraudulent report analyzed and extensively reported. Meanwhile, Miller overlooks the Russia Hoax that dominated the news for four years, significantly affecting Trump’s presidency. Miller’s so-called objective and “dispassionate” report gave life to this hoax.
In her current stance, Miller echoes Democratic views, dismissing DNI Gabbard’s claims as mere conspiracy theories and labeling Gabbard and Trump as dishonest… once more.
She added: “At the same time, we found no two-way collusion between Trump or his team with the Russians at that time.”
One needs a pretty sharp razor to keep splitting that hair. Miller added,
Miller said “it is clear that Trump and his followers have a script they want to follow, despite the facts.”
Mmmkay. Miller appeared Friday on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” and defended her team’s work on the intelligence, stanning for her then-boss John Brennan and claiming they were told to be “dispassionate” and just submit the credible intelligence that was found. Miller further claimed that her team did not want the Steele Dossier included in the assessment and that Brennan was not the one who insisted on including the dossier in the report.
Really?!
Miller alleged it was the FBI who wanted it included, and that she was forced to add it as an annex to the report for the FBI to sign off on it.
WATCH:
“I think it is wrong in every single way. What Tulsi is saying is we only want to hear anything that is pro-Trump, pro-Trump policy, pro-this, pro-current Republican Party from any of our intel services. And if we hear anything that’s not that, then we are going to come after… pic.twitter.com/7bkJtuwKOS
— StudiGo (@StudiGo_LLC) July 26, 2025
Miller is an alumna of California Polytechnic University. It is curious timing that on July 1, Cal Poly’s school paper the “Mustang” did a puff piece on her.
In that Mustang piece it claimed:
She served nine times overseas and eventually rose to become the CIA’s Chief of Counterintelligence, where in 2016, she authored the initial report proving the Russians interfered in the 2016 election in an attempt to sway the presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor. She was grilled for eight hours during the historic Barr-Durham trial in which President Trump pressured the then-attorney general into pressing criminal charges against her.
Now that she has retired — and retains the same security clearance as the U.S. president minus the nuclear stuff — Miller reached out to Mustang News to share her story and explain how a young woman from Sunnyvale would go on to an adventurous and decorated career as a CIA agent.
Can you say, “Axe to grind,” boys and girls? And why under heaven does she still have a security clearance at all, let alone at the highest level?! Later in the article, Miller brought up the Russian intelligence, and blamed Trump for his conspiratorial mind that could turn basic intelligence into a witch hunt.
Uh-huh.
That meant Miller and Patel.
Miller was dragged into an eight-hour interrogation about her methods for crafting the paper targeted at discerning political bias. The investigation eventually found none and she never officially heard from them again.
Whispers of Trump trying to prosecute them again have haunted Miller and Patel. Just a few months ago the report’s name surfaced again.
“That’s just the gift that keeps giving,” Patel said of the papers.
Apparently, if she’s able to now garner legacy media appearances from it. Does Miller plan to run for California governor? Brennan is the one in the crosshairs, not her. So, if it was a basic, paint-by-numbers report, she could have chosen to remain in the woodwork since essentially, she’s not the one feeling the heat. So, why resurface and choose to call DNI Gabbard and Trump liars?
Two reasons revealed in the Mustang article: She is slated to receive an award for her unsung intelligence work and she is slated to be the keynote speaker for a Cal Poly Journalism school event.
Also recently uncovered, this July 17 Times Radio London podcast on which Miller appeared. Miller once again brings up the 2016 Russian intel and how Trump threatened to put her and her team in jail.
WATCH:
“Is there any credible possibility Trump might be a Kremlin asset?”
“A number of times he’s acting like one.”
Former CIA official Susan Miller tells #TimesRadio Trump’s delays on Ukraine aid and attacks on US intelligence services show he “wants to be very much like Putin.” pic.twitter.com/M8X3zgBULt
— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) July 17, 2025
It is very interesting that these ex-intelligence officials love to go overseas to render their assessments. Of course, to Miller, all roads lead to Ukraine and that big, bad Trump refuses to fully support this money-laundering conflict. It all ties together.
Miller jumping in with two big feet, adding her voice to the chorus of “Gabbard is a liar, Trump is delusional and trying to deflect from Epstein,” is transparent, weak, and more proof that they are trying to rewrite history because the truth has them running scared.
