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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 2 23</font></div><div><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush years, members of Republican presidential administrations often used the phrase "peace through strength" when arguing in favor of a large military budget and an interventionist foreign policy. <b>But Christopher C. Miller, who served as acting secretary of defense during the final months of the Trump Administration, is calling for the United States to "dramatically" reduce its military budget</b>.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During an </span><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-acting-defense-secretary-christopher-miller-defense-budget-could-be-halved-the-takeout/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">interview for CBS News’ podcast "The Takeout,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Miller — a retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel — told host Major Garrett that the United States<b>’ military budget could be cut by as much as half.</b></span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-acting-defense-secretary-christopher-miller-defense-budget-could-be-halved-the-takeout/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">57-year-old Miller argued</a>, "We have created an entire enterprise that focuses economically on creating crisis to justify outrageously high defense spending. You have to starve the beast to make people come out of their cubby holes and start thinking creatively."</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE:</strong> <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/national-insecurity-military-budget-trillion" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>'National insecurity': Military budget tops $1.4 trillion</strong></a></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-acting-defense-secretary-christopher-miller-defense-budget-could-be-halved-the-takeout/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">During the interview</a>, Miller also urged politicians to quit obsessing over China.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-acting-defense-secretary-christopher-miller-defense-budget-could-be-halved-the-takeout/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Miller told Garrett</a>, "I think by constantly harping on the fact that China is the new threat and we’re going to go to war with them someday actually plays right into Chairman Xi’s hands and the Chinese Communist Party. They need to have an enemy that they can, you know, focus their people’s anger and attention on, and I think we provide them that opportunity by constantly harking on the fact that the Chinese are the greatest threat to America and what not."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Miller, author of the new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Soldier-Secretary-Warnings-Battlefield-Dangerous/dp/1546002448/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1IPTCDKTX75RP&keywords=soldier+secretary+book&qid=1676038148&sprefix=soldier+secretary%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">"Soldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield & the Pentagon about America’s Most Dangerous Enemies,"</a> joined Trump's administration on November 9, 2020 after then-President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/why-rand-paul-is-right-to-push-pentagon-spending-cuts-journalist/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Why Rand Paul is right to push 'Pentagon spending cuts': journalist</a></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read CBS News’ <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-acting-defense-secretary-christopher-miller-defense-budget-could-be-halved-the-takeout/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">full article at this link</a>.</p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div> a move denounced by security and legal experts acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller has ordered the National Security Agency to install Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist, <b>former chief counsel to GOP Rep. Devin Nunes, and Republican political operative, as the NSA's top lawyer.</b> The role is a civil service position, not one in which a political nominee is legally allowed to be placed.</div><div>
</div><div>Miller ordered the NSA chief, General Paul Nakasone, to install Ellis by Saturday at 6 PM. National security experts were relieved when it appeared Nakasone had refused, but on Sunday The Washington Post and CNN both reported Ellis will be the agency's general counsel.</div><div>
</div><div>"Mr. Ellis accepted his final job offer yesterday afternoon," the NSA said in a statement Sunday, the Post reports, which is just three days before Trump will no longer be president. "<b>NSA is moving forward with his employment."</b></div><div>
</div><div>Susan Hennessey, a former Intelligence Community attorney who is now a CNN National Security and Legal Analyst, on Saturday basted the Trump administration's 11th hour attempt to subvert the process and blasted Ellis himself as<b> "bad bad news.</b>"</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=
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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reporters were stunned on Friday following a bizarre gaggle that acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller held with the press.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I so…I mean, I cannot wait to leave this job, believe me," Miller said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stephen Losey of the Air Force Times described it as "<a href="https://twitter.com/StephenLosey/status/1350173994658492416" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the most epic case of senioritis ever</a>."</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Gobsmacking incoherent briefing from the US acting defense secretary, Chris Miller, today,"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Julian Borger, the world affairs editor for the Guardian, reported.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Borger noted the Pentagon transcript included the phrase, "blah blah bluh blah."....</font></b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Politico's Andrew Desiderio was shocked that Miller praised Russia for the success they have had during the Trump administration.</font></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Russian? I think they're extremely…uh…I have professional respect for how they do things…I think they're played a really bad hand of card very, very well. Declining population, single -- single source of economic revenue through natural resources. <b>I kind of, you know, like professionally I'm like, wow, they're doing pretty well, and they're using a lot of irregular warfare concepts, information, all this stuff, in a way that, you know, like…good on them," Miller said.</b></font></span></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Twenty years after 9/11, when part of the Pentagon itself was destroyed in a terrorist attack intended to decapitate United States military leaders, the federal reaction to a new act of terrorism on American soil proved so incompetent as to defy description. As mobs chanted demands that the vice president be killed and hunted congressional leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Capitol Police officers were left on their own, without help, and no word on when help would arrive.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A large part of that was due to what appears to be <em>no</em> substantive response from the Department of Defense as this nation's top lawmakers hid from terrorists in the halls of the U.S. Capitol. And it now appears that that inaction, by Trump Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, very nearly caused the fall of the U.S. government. And that, regardless of intent, is an inexcusable failure. Miller has proven unfit for his office, <em>at best</em>. His failure to respond to a terrorist attack in any substantive way endangered the entire country; during a national crisis, he proved <em>at best</em> incompetent.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He must be removed from his post immediately for that failure alone. It may be more important to remove "acting" Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller from his post than it is to remove Trump himself;</b> while Trump worked to provoke the attack, during an assembly of known-violent extremists known to law enforcement as potential domestic terrorists, it is Miller that decapitated the nation's response to the insurrection as terrorists hunted officials inside the breached halls of Congress.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A later investigation will determine whether Miller's intent was treasonous. There is no interpretation of the facts, however, that can justify Miller's disgraceful failure to mount a response to an ongoing terrorist act. He cannot remain in his post.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As we learn the true events of last Wednesday's attempted coup, the true nature of both the attack and the horrific lack of federal response are becoming clear. We now know that the attack was not spontaneous; within the larger crowd of willingly violent Trump allies, a subset was armed, knew where they were going, and intended to execute Vice President Mike Pence, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other Trump opponents.<b> As calls for backup from Capitol Police, lawmakers, and congressional staff went unanswered, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-capitol-siege/2021/01/09/e3ad3274-5283-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the assassins came very close to succeeding</a>.</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We also know that top Trump administration officials knew in advance of the threat to the Capitol, but downplayed threat assessments given to the Capitol Police and to Congress so as to justify a far weaker law enforcement presence than for any other major (or even minor) planned mass protest. This lack of preparation comes after a <b>Trump administration <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-capitol-siege/2021/01/09/e3ad3274-5283-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">gutting of Department of Homeland Security intelligence officials</a>, part of a larger purge of officials deemed insufficiently loyal to Donald Trump.</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">But perhaps the most consequential actions were by newly appointed Trump Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller—the same Christopher Miller that President-elect Joe Biden called out for blocking national security briefings to the incoming administration. The timeline now makes clear that even <em style="">long</em> after Capitol Police had reported multiple officers injured and the Capitol building being overrun, Miller still took no significant action.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to the timeline of the Wall Street Journal, officer injuries were reported at 1:18pm. By 1:41, Capitol Police were overrun. Capitol Police chief requested National Guard support at 2:22pm, one of <em style="">numerous</em> officials to do so—many hiding inside the building awaiting immediate help.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It was not until 5:45pm formally approved the dispatch of the Maryland National Guard. The delay in response? Hours.</font></p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="afc397e31ec553f118723a505ff2d327" id="76ba9" style=""><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; max-width: 550px; width: 550px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><blockquote class="twitter-custom-tweet twitter-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-lazy-tweet-id="1348087671562899456" data-twitter-tweet-id="1348087671562899456" data-twitter-extracted-i161039869214211236="true" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.543px;"><div style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“By around 4pm, Gov. Hogan said, he learned that Acting Defense Sec. Chris Miller had yet to grant the necessary ap</span><span style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">… https://t.co/Gfc6y8KXKV</span></font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">— Laura Rozen (@Laura Rozen)<span style="transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">1610244121.0</span></font></blockquote></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It is difficult to imagine that, after two decades of security theater and an unending list of curtailed public freedoms after 9/11, the federal response to an actual terrorist assault on the U.S. Capitol could consist of exactly nothing, for hours, as congressional security forces fought by themselves to protect national leaders from execution</b>. It is impossible to imagine—and yet it happened, and many days after the attack, neither Miller nor any other executive branch appointee has deigned to so much as brief the public on how such a massive failure could have taken place. We were under the impression federal forces were competent enough to defend from even far larger terrorist attacks. We were wrong.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even with ample advance notice of the threat, even after the attackers had used social media to publicly plan their assault, brag about their weaponry, and announce their intent, the terrorists remained unimpeded by federal forces for hours.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We were told that the security precautions that have justified the aggressive paramilitary treatment of American protesters <em style="">for decades</em> was for security purposes, to keep the nation safe: Met with an actual terrorist attack, the same forces stood down.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Either we have been lied to, and for decades, or Chris Miller and other administration leaders willingly looked the other way as an attack on this nation's capital unfolded. It is almost certain to be both.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Acting Secretary of Defense Miller must answer for his apparent role in defeating a timely response to an insurrection. He, and his Department of Justice counterparts, must answer for the lack of backup outside and inside the designated target of a mass gathering of known insurrectionists—and, especially, for the inability to muster such backup even as McConnell, Pelosi, Pence, and other leaders hid in offices as their own security teams made clear that inaction could lead to executions.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is not forgivable, or recoverable. Miller operated either with an assumption that the terrorists were not who they plainly self-identified to be—and remember, there was no reason to believe that foreign actors could not have been mingling with the crowd, carrying out their own missions or assisting American counterparts in identifying routes and strategies—or Miller willingly sat on his hands as the attempted coup unfolded.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In prior remarks, Joe Biden singled out the Department of Justice and Department of Defense as the two agencies where political hires were continuing to stonewall national security briefings of the incoming administration.</b> It should not go without notice that these were the two agencies responsible for assessing the risk to the Capitol in advance and providing backup and rescue services when it became necessary—and that both of those teams failed, spectacularly and perhaps deliberately, in both tasks. In a recent open letter, all living ex-secretaries of defense condemned Trump's attempt to overturn the election results and warned, specifically, that military leaders could be charged with crimes for abetting them. It was an unprecedented warning amid a sea of unprecedented warnings. And it was prescient.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is now necessary to ask whether Chris Miller mounted an incompetent response to a terrorist attack because he truly is incapable of his job, or whether he did so in a conspiracy siding with the terrorists. That is how horrific his response is. That is how unthinkable the actions of top federal leaders are. We need not await an answer before acting: Whatever may have occurred, it was so damaging to the nation that Miller cannot remain in his post another moment. 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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Christopher Charles Miller</b> (born October 15, 1965) is the acting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Secretary of Defense</a> and the former Director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Counterterrorism_Center" title="National Counterterrorism Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Counterterrorism Center</a>. Prior to serving in civilian leadership at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Department of Defense</a>, Miller was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces" title="United States Army Special Forces" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Green Beret</a>, commanding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Special_Forces_Group(United_States)" title="5th Special Forces Group (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5th Special Forces Group</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraq</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Afghanistan</a>, and a defense contractor.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Miller was initially the Director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Counterterrorism_Center" title="National Counterterrorism Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Counterterrorism Center</a>, a role to which he was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on August 6, 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-PN1741-nomination_of_Christopher_C_Miller_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-PN1741-nomination_of_Christopher_C_Miller-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NCTC_Bio_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-NCTC_Bio-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Beavers_Trump_fires_Defense_chief_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Beavers_Trump_fires_Defense_chief-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> He was named Acting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Secretary of Defense</a> by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a> on November 9, 2020, following Trump's firing of Secretary of Defense <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Esper" title="Mark Esper" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark Esper</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt-firing_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-nyt-firing-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Christopher_C.Miller-defense.gov_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Christopher_C.Miller-defense.gov-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> During his tenure as acting secretary of defense, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_presidential_transition" class="mw-redirect" title="Joe Biden presidential transition" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">J<b>oe Biden presidential transition</b></a><b> staff accused Miller of obstructing the transition</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol" title="2021 storming of the United States Capitol" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">2021 storming of the United States Capitol</a>, Miller was criticized for hesitating to approve assistance of National Guard troops from neighboring states to reinforce the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_National_Guard" title="District of Columbia National Guard" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">D.C. National Guard</a> until 4:41 PM, three hours after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol_Police" title="United States Capitol Police" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Capitol Police</a> signaled that they were being overrun and two hours after city officials from the District had asked for such assistance.</span><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;"><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and education</span></span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#Military_service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Military service</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#Civilian_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Civilian career</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#Acting_Secretary_of_Defense" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Acting Secretary of Defense</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#January_14th_Press_Conference" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">January 14th Press Conference</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Miller was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platteville,Wisconsin" title="Platteville, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Platteville, Wisconsin</a> on October 15, 1965, and raised in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_City,Iowa" title="Iowa City, Iowa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iowa City</a> from 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-QuestionaireSenCom_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-QuestionaireSenCom-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PoliceChiefPhilosophy_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-PoliceChiefPhilosophy-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> His mother, Lois Maxine Miller,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> taught at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Delaware" title="University of Delaware" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Delaware</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PoliceChiefPhilosophy_11-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-PoliceChiefPhilosophy-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> His father, Harvey Dell Miller, was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_City_Police_Department" title="Iowa City Police Department" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">police chief of Iowa City</a> for 13 years,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> and according to Miller he "believed strongly in the nobility of public service".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> He had previously worked as an<b> assistant professor of law and government at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill" title="University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</a></b>.<sup id="cite_ref-PoliceChiefPhilosophy_11-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-PoliceChiefPhilosophy-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Miller attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_City_High_School" title="Iowa City High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iowa City High School</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-MarriageAnnouncement_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-MarriageAnnouncement-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George Washington University</a> in 1987. He was awarded the Gardiner G. Hubbard Memorial Award in U.S. History for having the highest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_point_average" class="mw-redirect" title="Grade point average" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">grade point average</a> in the history department.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Military_service">Military service</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_C.Miller&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Military service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Miller served in the military from 1983 to 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-NCTC_Bio_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-NCTC_Bio-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He started as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlisted_soldier" class="mw-redirect" title="Enlisted soldier" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">enlisted soldier</a>, then was commissioned as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Lieutenant(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Lieutenant (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">second lieutenant</a> in 1987, and then joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces" title="United States Army Special Forces" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Army Special Forces</a> in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt-firing_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-nyt-firing-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Washington_Post_surprise_acting_defense_secretary_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Washington_Post_surprise_acting_defense_secretary-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He received a Master of Arts in national security studies from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_War_College" title="Naval War College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Naval War College</a> in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-QuestionaireSenCom_10-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-QuestionaireSenCom-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> He also graduated from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_War_College" title="Naval War College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">College of Naval Command and Staff</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_War_College" title="United States Army War College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Army War College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Christopher_C.Miller-defense.gov_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Christopher_C.Miller-defense.gov-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He participated in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In Afghanistan, he was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_commander" title="Company commander" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">company commander</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Special_Forces_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="5th Special Forces Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5th Special Forces Group</a>, which fought <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">al-Qaeda</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Taliban</a>. In Iraq, he commanded Special Forces units in 2006 and 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-Washington_Post_surprise_acting_defense_secretary_18-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Washington_Post_surprise_acting_defense_secretary-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> His promotion to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel(United_States)" title="Colonel (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">colonel</a> was approved in December 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Miller served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_executive_officer" title="Program executive officer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">program executive officer</a> (PEO) for rotary wing programs at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Command" title="United States Special Operations Command" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Special Operations Command</a> in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup> One of his last assignments as an Army officer was as Director for Special Operations and Irregular Warfare in the Office of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_Defense_for_Special_Operations_and_Low-Intensity_Conflict" title="Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict & Interdependent Capabilities</a> at the Pentagon in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Civilian_career">Civilian career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">After retiring in 2014, Miller worked as a defense contractor.</span><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-23" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-23" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">23]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From March 2018 until December 2019,<sup id="cite_ref-Washington_Post_surprise_acting_defense_secretary_18-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Washington_Post_surprise_acting_defense_secretary-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> Miller served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Trump administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trump administration</a> as a counterterrorism advisor on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council" title="United States National Security Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States National Security Council</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Beavers_Trump_fires_Defense_chief_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Beavers_Trump_fires_Defense_chief-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> where he worked through and was involved in operations against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIL" class="mw-redirect" title="ISIL" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ISIL</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Trump_Ousts_Defense_Chief_Esper_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Trump_Ousts_Defense_Chief_Esper-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2020, he became deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations and combating terrorism.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Beavers_Trump_fires_Defense_chief_3-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Beavers_Trump_fires_Defense_chief-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Christopher_C.Miller-defense.gov_6-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Christopher_C.Miller-defense.gov-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Washington_Post_surprise_acting_defense_secretary_18-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Washington_Post_surprise_acting_defense_secretary-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He was involved in designating </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Iran</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah" title="Hezbollah" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Hezbollah</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_United_States" title="Domestic terrorism in the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American domestic terrorism</a> as threats to the United States.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Trump_Ousts_Defense_Chief_Esper_25-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Trump_Ousts_Defense_Chief_Esper-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trump_plans_to_nominate_Special_Forces_veteran_to_head_counterterrorism_center_amid_uncertainty_about_its_future_26-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Trump_plans_to_nominate_Special_Forces_veteran_to_head_counterterrorism_center_amid_uncertainty_about_its_future-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On August 10, 2020, he became Director of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Counterterrorism_Center" title="National Counterterrorism Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Counterterrorism Center</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Trump_Ousts_Defense_Chief_Esper_25-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Trump_Ousts_Defense_Chief_Esper-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup> Trump nominated Miller to the role in March 2020,<sup id="cite_ref-Trump_plans_to_nominate_Special_Forces_veteran_to_head_counterterrorism_center_amid_uncertainty_about_its_future_26-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Trump_plans_to_nominate_Special_Forces_veteran_to_head_counterterrorism_center_amid_uncertainty_about_its_future-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Washington_Post_surprise_acting_defense_secretary_18-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Washington_Post_surprise_acting_defense_secretary-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> and Miller was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on August 6.</b><sup id="cite_ref-Beavers_Trump_fires_Defense_chief_3-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Beavers_Trump_fires_Defense_chief-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trump_Ousts_Defense_Chief_Esper_25-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Trump_Ousts_Defense_Chief_Esper-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PN1741-nomination_of_Christopher_C_Miller_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-PN1741-nomination_of_Christopher_C_Miller-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Acting_Secretary_of_Defense">Acting Secretary of Defense</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 8px 32px; border-left: none;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On November 9, 2020, Miller was appointed as Acting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Secretary of Defense</a>, following the termination of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Esper" title="Mark Esper" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Esper</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Beavers_Trump_fires_Defense_chief_3-4" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-Beavers_Trump_fires_Defense_chief-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Miller's first overseas trip occurred in the third week of November when he visited multiple military units in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Middle East</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" title="Africa" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Africa</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to include a three-hour stopover in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadishu" title="Mogadishu" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Mogadishu</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Miller said that in addition to meeting senior military and foreign officials during the trip, he wanted to visit troops and thank them for their service on the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving(United_States)" title="Thanksgiving (United States)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Thanksgiving</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> holiday.</span><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The top Republican on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Armed_Services_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="House Armed Services Committee" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">House Armed Services Committee</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Rep. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Thornberry" title="Mac Thornberry" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Mac Thornberry</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, expressed concern that the sudden shake-up and installation of leadership at the Pentagon based on political fealty instead of expertise "endanger U.S. national security." </span><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Miller's chief of staff as Acting Secretary of Defense is </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashyap_Patel" class="mw-redirect" title="Kashyap Patel" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Kashyap Patel</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a former aide to Congressman </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Nunes" title="Devin Nunes" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Devin Nunes</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Patel is known for trying to discredit investigations into </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections" title="Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Russian interference in the 2016 election</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:2_30-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:2-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In November of 2020, the political acting leadership of the Pentagon order withdrawals of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia against the advice of U.S. military commanders. <sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup> Some were critical of the decision with one group calling it "11th hour of President Donald Trump’s administration, risk serious harm to hard-fought counterterrorism gains and American safety. With these recent moves, Miller appears to be disregarding important lessons about terrorists’ resilience and the value of partnerships when conducting counterterrorism, while embracing a politically expedient but strategically sensical notion of “ending forever wars” to appease the president during his final weeks in office." <sup id="cite_ref-auto_34-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-auto-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup> They also pointed to the inconsistency in Miller's message where he claimed that the United States is “on the verge of defeating al-Qa’ida” and noted the need to avoid “our past strategic error of failing to see the fight through to the finish,” while also making the audacious statement that “Now, it’s time to come home.” <sup id="cite_ref-auto_34-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-auto-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In December 2020, it was reported that Miller had ordered the Pentagon to postpone 40 meetings with the incoming <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden" title="Presidency of Joe Biden" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Biden administration</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:1_35-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:1-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:0-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Miller said that this was a "mutually agreed-upon holiday pause" with the Biden transition, but the Biden transition team said no such agreement had been made.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:2_30-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:2-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Miller's decision to halt cooperation with the incoming administration came in the wake of President Donald Trump's refusal to concede in the election, refusals by various Trump administration political appointees to cooperate, and claims of fraud by the Trump administration.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:1_35-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:1-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_36-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:0-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_30-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:2-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In January 2021, all ten living former defense secretaries raised alarm in an open letter against a military coup to overturn the election results, warning officials who would participate and specifically naming Miller, that they would face grave consequences if they violated the constitution</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="January_14th_Press_Conference">January 14th Press Conference</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On January 14th, 2021, six days before the Trump Administration departed office, Miller held a highly anachronistic press conference described by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Youssef" title="Nancy Youssef" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Nancy Youssef</a> of the <i style="">Wall Street Journal</i> as having made the rounds among the national security press "for all the wrong reasons."<sup id="cite_ref-:3_38-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:3-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_39-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:4-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[39]</a></sup> During the interview he openly derided major Pentagon programs and strategies and declared that he could "not wait to leave the job, believe me". On a question regarding competition with Russia below the level of armed conflict, he raised eyebrows in his praise of Moscow saying "professionally I’m like, wow, they’re doing pretty well, and they’re using a lot of irregular warfare concepts, information, all this stuff, in a way that, you know, like... good on them." With extraordinary informality<sup id="cite_ref-:3_38-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:3-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[38]</a></sup> he relayed a conversation with a peer in which he derided the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II" title="Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">F-35 Joint Strike Fighter</a> and criticized efforts to develop <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_fighter" title="Fifth generation fighter" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">5th</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_generation_fighter" title="Sixth generation fighter" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">6th generation</a> fighter aircraft:</font></p><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 8px 32px; border-left: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I said ‘what are you flying?’ Said ‘F-35,’ I was like that’s a piece of…and he was like…and he laughed, and I was like, ‘no seriously, tell me about it,’ and he was an F-16 guy, F-35, he said ’unbelievable aircraft,’ I’m not…I…that investment, for…that capability, that we’re never supposed to use, ‘well, we have to deter, blah blah bluh blah…Are we fifth generation?  You know we…I think it’s hilarious, you know, right now, you know, ‘well we need to invest in the sixth generation,’ I’m like, we have created a monster, but you know that.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He capped his comments with wistful criticism of Department of Defense efforts to modernize innovation and acquisitions opining "a lot of people just want to continue doing the same old thing again and again. I think that’s the definition of insanity, isn’t it? Oh, did I say that out loud?"<sup id="cite_ref-:4_39-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-:4-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_C.Miller&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Miller married Kathryn Maag Miller on September 16, 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-MarriageAnnouncement_16-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-MarriageAnnouncement-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> She works as an office manager for a health and environment lobbying group.<sup id="cite_ref-QuestionaireSenCom_10-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-QuestionaireSenCom-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> They have three children.<sup id="cite_ref-NCTC_Bio_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller#cite_note-NCTC_Bio-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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He was named Acting Secretary of Defense by President Donald <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trump</span> on November ... In December 2020, it was reported that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Miller</span> had ordered the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pentagon</span> to postpone 40 meetings with the incoming Joe Biden administration.</font></span></a></font></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CEVxqhL0rm4J:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C.Miller+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:CEVxqhL0rm4J:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C._Miller%2B%26cd%3D13%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiHwdfBpKHuAhXGmq0KHcMCA4oQIDAMegQIGBAH" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>