Susan Miller, the retired CIA spook who lied about her leadership role in the intelligence report that lit the fuse on the Russia collusion hoax bomb, has been stripped of her security clearance, according to two Trump administration officials familiar with the matter.
Miller, who served as a senior Central Intelligence Agency Officer, has long boasted about her “full clearance,” particularly while attacking President Donald Trump and his top intelligence officers for shining a light on one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. That clearance has now been terminated, the administration officials told The Federalist.
“This woman totally shouldn’t hold a high level security clearance after pushing the Russia Hoax. All she did was lie to the American people to hurt Trump,” a senior Defense official said of Miller.
Author of the Hoax?
Miller has made the corporate media rounds of late, attempting to undercut reams of declassified documents exposing the Obama White House and Miller’s former intelligence community bosses for manufacturing the bogus 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that falsely claimed Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election with the purpose of electing Donald Trump. Internal communications at the time show career agents warning then-CIA Director John Brennan and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that the “intelligence” used to go after Trump was bad and failed to measure up to CIA intelligence-gathering standards.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in recent weeks has unsealed bombshell records that she says show “President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump.” The Trump campaign-Kremlin collusion narrative fell apart after years of investigation, but not before Democrats and the deep state spied on Americans, engaged in political witch hunts, undermined Trump’s first term in the White House, and ruined the lives of their political enemies.
In short, the Russia collusion hoax.
The usual suspects in the corporate media were along for the ride. As The Federalist reported earlier this month, several media outlets attempted to exploit the former CIA spook’s credentials to diminish the declassified documents and accounts of whistleblowers. They and Miller lied about her involvement in the ICA, describing her as “an author of the agency’s 2017 intelligence report on Russian meddling.” On a left-wing podcast earlier this summer, Miller claimed she “headed up the report team” that compiled the error-ridden intelligence assessment. She did not, senior intelligence sources told real journalist Matt Taibbi and the Racket News.
“Not an author. Not involved,” a senior intelligence official said.
“… [S]he’s not the author of the ICA … she wasn’t leading this effort. So it’s just totally bizarre that she claims the opposite,” a source with knowledge of the report’s preparation told the news outlet.
‘Cannot Be Trusted’
Miller should be grateful. The deeply flawed intelligence assessment she has taken credit for may go down as one of the most politically driven, undemocratic spy reports in American history.
As The Federalist’s CEO and co-founder Sean Davis reported earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice asked Gabbard’s office for documents “related to the ongoing federal investigation into the Obama administration’s Russiagate operation.”
“According to a letter to ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] senior adviser Paul McNamara, which was obtained by The Federalist, the DOJ has requested from ODNI a wide array of documents about the Obama administration’s 2016 and 2017 attempts to frame then-President-elect Donald Trump as an agent of Russia who stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton,” Davis wrote.
“Forgive me for being coarse, but these [intelligence] analysts, for lack of a better term, crapped all over ICD [Intelligence Community Directive] 203. They did not follow it in the slightest,” Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) chairman, said recently on The Federalist Radio Hour.
“It was ignored and they went forward with their own narrative that was done simply to discredit President Trump and to spin a narrative that was false, and that was that he was involved with [Russian President] Vladimir Putin in helping to change the outcome of the election,” he added.
While Miller appears to have exaggerated her role in the ICA, the deep stater, now sans security clearance, certainly has sprung to its defense.
“We definitely had the intel to show with high probability that the specific goal of the Russians was to get Trump elected,” she said. The records refute that, and she has acknowledged no evidence of “two‑way collusion” between Trump’s campaign and Russia.
Miller has sharply criticized Trump CIA Director John Ratcliffe, insisting that his move to declassify intelligence records and forward a criminal referral to the DOJ was “‘100 percent’ political” and aimed at placating Trump.
And the retired CIA official on the SpyTalk podcast accused Trump of “acting … like Putin,” and “at a minimum, like a dictator.”
More than eight years after the launch of the FBI’s notorious “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation and the ultimate debunking of the Russia collusion hoax, a SpyTalk host asked Miller, “Is Trump a Russian agent?”
“Good question,” she mused, before going on to speculate about reasons for the purported Russian election interference: “Could it be because that’s their guy who’s an agent? Sure. Could it be that that’s their guy because they know he’s politically aligned with them?”
When asked last month on Times Radio whether she thought Trump was a “Kremlin asset,” Miller responded, “There’s a number of times he’s acting like one.” How is he acting like one? Because Miller doesn’t understand why the president “isn’t … just giving Ukraine our weapons.”
A senior administration official told The Federalist that Miller has deservedly lost the trust of the intelligence community she once worked for.
“Russian Hoaxers sought to undermine President Trump’s entire first term in office. A woman involved in the Russia Hoax cannot be trusted with a security clearance. Therefore, it has been revoked,” the source said.