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| + | |description=[[ABC News]] journalist close to the [[national security]] apparatus. Concerns about his welfare after he resigned suddenly from his job and dropped out of sight after a 2022 [[FBI]] raid. In January [[2023]], he was charged with transportation of child pornography.pornography. | ||
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}}''Not to be confused the British corporate journalist, [[James Meek]].'' | }}''Not to be confused the British corporate journalist, [[James Meek]].'' | ||
| + | '''James Gordon Meek''' is a US journalist close to the [[national security]] apparatus<ref>https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2022/10/21/the-fbi-raid-and-disappearance-of-journalist-james-gordon-meek-should-chill-you-to-the-bone-n646672</ref>. Meek was a well-known figure in [[national security]] circles, both as an Emmy-winning journalist for [[ABC]] and a former [[counterterrorism]] adviser and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee.<ref name=rolling>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/james-gordon-meek-warrant-1234672165/</ref> | ||
| − | + | In the last half of [[2022]], there were concerns about his welfare<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/producer-james-gordon-meek-disappeared-after-fbi-raid-rolling-stone-reports</ref> after he resigned suddenly from his job and dropped out of sight after a April [[2022]] [[FBI]] raid. In January [[2023]], he was charged with transportation of child pornography.<ref>https://deadline.com/2023/02/abc-news-producer-arrested-child-pornography-1235246591/</ref> | |
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| + | The concern about his welfare in some "alternative media" and parts of corporate media<ref>https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/journalist-james-gordon-meek-missing-since-fbi-seized-classified-docs-in-home-raid-report/</ref><ref>https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/award-winning-journalist-missing-after-fbi-raided-his-home-following-tweet-about-us-intervention-in-ukraine</ref> might have been a [[red herring]], laid out to distract and lead astray the parts of the public reading opposition media. Another interpretation is that the raid was an internal settlement of scores in the [[national security]] apparatus. | ||
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| + | ==Corporate career== | ||
| + | In 2006, reporting for the ''[[New York Daily News|Daily News]]'', Meek was the first journalist to report on that year's [[Al Qaeda]]-organized [[Hudson River bomb plot]]. From 2011, Meek was a senior counterterrorism advisor and investigator for the U.S. [[House Committee on Homeland Security]], where he investigated, among other terrorist acts, the [[Boston Marathon bombing]].<ref name=ABC>https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/abc-news-expands-its-award-winning-investigative-unit</ref><ref name=SS /> [[Simon & Schuster]] has stated that Meek spent five years investigating the [[death of Dave Sharrett II]].<ref name=SS>https://web.archive.org/web/20220117101323/https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Operation-Pineapple-Express/Scott-Mann/9781668003534 </ref> | ||
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| + | He was a writer and narrator for the 2021 Emmy-nominated documentary film ''[[3212 Un-redacted]]''<ref>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/national-academy-of-tv-arts-sciences-announces-2022-news-documentary-emmy-nominees-1235188293/ </ref> which detailed the [[Tongo Tongo ambush]], an ambush of Green Berets in [[Niger]] in 2017.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/movies/3212-un-redacted-review.html</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Child porn charges== | ||
| + | In April [[2022]], Meek resigned very abruptly from his [[ABC News]] post without warning or explanation, with even close coworkers unaware of the reasons for his departure.<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fbi-raid-abc-news_producer-1234613619/</ref> | ||
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| + | Federal prosecutors say their investigation into Meek first began after the [[cloud storage]] company [[Dropbox]] tipped off the [[National Center for Missing and Exploited Children]] about the presence of five suspected videos of child sexual exploitation material in a Dropbox account, according to the complaint.<ref name=rolling/> | ||
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| + | In January 2023, he was arrested on a charge of transportation of child pornography. The [[Department of Justice]] took an unusually long time — eight months — to formally charge Meek.<ref name=rolling/> | ||
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ABC News journalist close to the national security apparatus. Concerns about his welfare after he resigned suddenly from his job and dropped out of sight after a 2022 FBI raid. In January 2023, he was charged with transportation of child pornography.pornography.
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Not to be confused the British corporate journalist, James Meek.
James Gordon Meek is a US journalist close to the national security apparatus[1]. Meek was a well-known figure in national security circles, both as an Emmy-winning journalist for ABC and a former counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee.[2]
In the last half of 2022, there were concerns about his welfare[3] after he resigned suddenly from his job and dropped out of sight after a April 2022 FBI raid. In January 2023, he was charged with transportation of child pornography.[4]
The concern about his welfare in some "alternative media" and parts of corporate media[5][6] might have been a red herring, laid out to distract and lead astray the parts of the public reading opposition media. Another interpretation is that the raid was an internal settlement of scores in the national security apparatus.
Corporate career
In 2006, reporting for the Daily News, Meek was the first journalist to report on that year's Al Qaeda-organized Hudson River bomb plot. From 2011, Meek was a senior counterterrorism advisor and investigator for the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, where he investigated, among other terrorist acts, the Boston Marathon bombing.[7][8] Simon & Schuster has stated that Meek spent five years investigating the death of Dave Sharrett II.[8]
He was a writer and narrator for the 2021 Emmy-nominated documentary film 3212 Un-redacted[9] which detailed the Tongo Tongo ambush, an ambush of Green Berets in Niger in 2017.[10]
Child porn charges
In April 2022, Meek resigned very abruptly from his ABC News post without warning or explanation, with even close coworkers unaware of the reasons for his departure.[11]
Federal prosecutors say their investigation into Meek first began after the cloud storage company Dropbox tipped off the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about the presence of five suspected videos of child sexual exploitation material in a Dropbox account, according to the complaint.[2]
In January 2023, he was arrested on a charge of transportation of child pornography. The Department of Justice took an unusually long time — eight months — to formally charge Meek.[2]
References
- ↑ https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2022/10/21/the-fbi-raid-and-disappearance-of-journalist-james-gordon-meek-should-chill-you-to-the-bone-n646672
- ↑ a b c https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/james-gordon-meek-warrant-1234672165/
- ↑ https://www.thedailybeast.com/producer-james-gordon-meek-disappeared-after-fbi-raid-rolling-stone-reports
- ↑ https://deadline.com/2023/02/abc-news-producer-arrested-child-pornography-1235246591/
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/journalist-james-gordon-meek-missing-since-fbi-seized-classified-docs-in-home-raid-report/
- ↑ https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/award-winning-journalist-missing-after-fbi-raided-his-home-following-tweet-about-us-intervention-in-ukraine
- ↑ https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/abc-news-expands-its-award-winning-investigative-unit
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20220117101323/https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Operation-Pineapple-Express/Scott-Mann/9781668003534
- ↑ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/national-academy-of-tv-arts-sciences-announces-2022-news-documentary-emmy-nominees-1235188293/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/movies/3212-un-redacted-review.html
- ↑ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fbi-raid-abc-news_producer-1234613619/
