Veteran ABC News journalist James Gordon Meek. Photo: Twitter @meekwire
Veteran ABC News journalist James Gordon Meek, who specializes in US national security policy and investigations, disappeared after the FBI searched his home in urban Arlington County, Virginia for nearly six months.
According to a Rolling Stone investigation released this week Heavily armed FBI agents with tactical vehicles appeared in front of the building where the journalist lived on April 27, after which his neighbors have not seen him since.
His colleagues also say they don’t know where he is. One of his colleagues said: “He has disappeared from the face of the earth, people ask, but nobody knows the answer.” Another ABC rep claimed Meek “quited notice very suddenly and didn’t work for us for months.”
An FBI official told the outlet that “court-approved law enforcement activity” was taking place in the area. In addition, the agency itself confirmed that it was present at an address in Arlington, but “cannot comment further due to the ongoing investigation.”
At the same time, anonymous sources familiar with the matter reported that Meek, who He was not charged with any crime, he was suspected of having classified material on his computer.
However, according to his attorney, Eugene Gorokhov, “if such documents exist, as claimed, it would be within the framework of his long career as an investigative journalist reporting on government irregularities.”
It’s worth noting that the search warrant was approved by a federal judge in the Eastern District Court of Virginia the day before, but that doesn’t comply with the new policy enacted by the Joe Biden administration in 2021 prohibiting federal prosecutors from seizing documents . by journalists without the consent of Assistant Attorney General Lisa Monaco.
According to Rolling Stone, independent observers believe that “the raid was one of the first, and possibly the first, carried out against a journalist” since the measure was enacted.
Meek has also not appeared on social media since April 27, when he posted his most recent tweet, in which he wrote a single word, “facts,” in response to former CIA agent Marc Polymeropoulos’ claim that the Events in Ukraine between 2014 and 2022 saw an 8-year “laboratory experiment” conducted by the US on the “tactics, techniques and procedures” of the Russian military.
He also stated that the Ukrainian army had achieved some success with Washington’s help. Polymeropoulos added that US experts familiar with “unconventional warfare” had “learned a lot of shit”.
Reporter ‘shrouded in secrets’
According to Rolling Stone, the bio of Meek, the producer of the acclaimed documentary ‘3212 Not edited’based on a 2017 investigation into how the Pentagon covered up the deaths of US soldiers during a military operation in Nigeria, “She was often shrouded in mystery.”
Some were under the impression he had previously served in the army, while one described a photo in the journalist’s office, taken in a desert, in which everyone posing with Meek had their faces blacked out.
At the same time, a 2013 ABC press release announcing the creation of a new investigative unit notes that Meek “has served as a senior counter-terrorism adviser and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee since 2011 and has fought with some of America’s top brass.” Threats including the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured more than 260.
(Taken from RT in Spanish)