Susan Miller Contradicts Report
Now this is where the Russiagate saga somehow manages to get even weirder. For years, we’ve been told the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) — the report that poured gasoline on the Russian collusion hysteria — was the work of a select group of top analysts handpicked to give the “high confidence” conclusion that Vladimir Putin meddled in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump. And suddenly, into the fray steps… Susan Miller.
Here’s the thing: for days, the media paraded Miller as one of the key authors of that report. She popped up on NBC, CNN, The Guardian, podcasts, radio spots — even in a British documentary — throwing punches at Tulsi Gabbard for allegedly “lying” about the ICA and doubling down on the idea that Trump was “acting like” a Russian asset. She’s been everywhere, apparently as a kind of cleanup hitter defending the credibility of that explosive document.
Just FYI: every news outlet that identified Susan Miller as an “author” of the Intelligence Community Assessment now needs to make a change, based on her own words. Hat tip to @BlazeTV and Joseph MacKinnon, who beat us and got this lol quote:
“I indeed did not write the ICA,… https://t.co/Ti41rARuyU pic.twitter.com/GhqJsAwst2
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) July 30, 2025
But then came the twist: she wasn’t actually an author of the ICA. Not even close, according to senior intel officials. One bluntly told RealClearInvestigations’ Paul Sperry: “Not an author. Not involved.” Another source put it even plainer: maybe she’s “on some emails or something,” but she didn’t write the thing, didn’t lead the project, and wasn’t part of the core team. So why was she claiming otherwise?
The Blaze’s Joe MacKinnon broke it first, and Matt Taibbi quickly piled on: Miller initially told reporters, “My team and I at CIA wrote a CIA analysis about Russian influence on the election.” Then she added that her report was used by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as the “basis” for the ICA. In other words: no, she didn’t actually write the ICA — but she wants credit for something adjacent to it. That’s not exactly a denial; it’s more like an awkward pivot.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) July 29, 2025
Meanwhile, Taibbi noted how bizarrely off Miller seemed in her media blitz, fumbling dates, glossing over Steele dossier details, and looking visibly shocked when interviewers brought up the infamous “pee tapes.” Yet this is the person suddenly trotted out as the face of the ICA? Not Brennan. Not Clapper. Not Comey. Susan Miller.
And here’s the kicker: while she’s being publicly called out for misleading statements about her role, the International Spy Museum is set to give her a “Hidden Hero” award this fall for “outsized contributions to the intelligence community.” You can’t make this stuff up.
Susan Miller conned NBC News, CNN, CBS News, Michael Isikoff, et. al., into thinking she was the lead author of the ICA. She is either a complete whackadoodle or she was sent out there to shield the real author.
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 31, 2025
So, who sent Susan Miller on this bizarre PR mission? Why now? And why on earth is she picking fights with Tulsi Gabbard — of all people — over a report she didn’t even author? As Taibbi put it best: this Russiagate thing? “Ops all the way down.”
