OAN reporter fired from FDA appointment is still at FDA, flouting rules

Enlarge / Emily Miller, when she was a reporter for OAN in 2016. (credit: YouTube)

Back in August, the Food and Drug Administration ousted Emily Miller from her role as the agency's top spokesperson. Miller, a right-wing activist and former One America News reporter, was installed in the FDA by the White House and given the role of assistant commissioner for media affairs, a role typically held by nonpartisan civil servants. She held the post for a mere 11 days and was fired amid intense controversy after several high-profile agency missteps.

But now it appears that Miller never left the FDA. She's still at the regulatory agency and has since been given a new-perhaps more prestigious-title. And as before, she is causing problems for the agency.

Miller is now the senior advisor to the chief of staff at the FDA. As an FDA employee, she has publicly promoted an unapproved drug as being like a cure" for COVID-19 on Twitter. Her tweets support unproven and potentially dangerous statements from President Trump and may violate FDA regulations. The drug she promoted is currently being reviewed by the FDA for emergency use, raising concerns about the agency's impartiality.

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