Sputnik International by Ekaterina Blinova
James Gordon Meek, a 52-year-old investigative reporter, who was also a former senior counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee, has not been seen for months after being presumably caught in the FBI’s crosshairs.
James Meek, an Emmy-winning journalist with ABC News who was writing a book about President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, has reportedly vanished after an FBI raid on his apartment.
Rolling Stone’s Tatiana Siegel broke the story earlier this week. Citing multiple sources familiar with the matter, Siegel suggested that Meek was the target of an FBI raid at Siena Park apartments on the morning of April 27. While the bureau refused to comment on the matter “due to an on-going investigation,” a federal magistrate judge in the Virginia Eastern District Court signed off on the search warrant the day before the raid, according to the Rolling Stone reporter. Siegel surmised that the FBI ransacked Meek’s apartment in connection with having classified material on his computer.
“Meek has been charged with no crime. But independent observers believe the raid is among the first — and quite possibly, the first — to be carried out on a journalist by the Biden administration,” wrote Siegel…
