In April, the FBI raided ABC investigative journalist James Gordon Meek's apartment.
- No one knows for sure why the FBI targeted Meek, who once worked as a senior counterterrorism advisor and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee
- Rolling Stone broke the story five days ago
- People "believe the raid is among the first and possibly the first carried out on a journalist by the Biden administration"
But why?
- Meek supposedly had classified information on his laptop.
- A new policy from last year says the federal government cannot take a journalist's documents...except when the deputy attorney general approves the warrant."
- Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco would have approved the search warrant for Meek's apartment if the raid was about classified information.
Could the book have anything to do with the raid and disappearance?
- In the months before he vanished, Meek was finishing up work on a book for Simon & Schuster titled Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan, which he co-authored with Lt. Col. Scott Mann.
- The first sentence of the jacket previously read: "In April, ABC News correspondent James Gordon Meek got an urgent call from a Special Forces operator serving overseas."
- Early press materials, available on the Wayback Machine, gushed about Meek's credentials: "He has covered the rise of Al Qaeda since 1998, from the Millennium Plot to reporting from the ground outside the Pentagon after a hijacked plane hit it on September 11, 2001, to combat embeds with US and Afghan Special Forces in Afghanistan. James has looked terrorists in the eye including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed,”
Rolling Stone outlines Meek's career
- In recent years, Meek worked on extremely sensitive topics, including high-profile terrorists, Americans held abroad, and the exploits of Erik Prince, the founder of the infamous military contractor Blackwater.
- One of Meek’s highest-profile reporting delved into a 2017 ambush by ISIS in Niger that left four American Green Berets dead, which he adapted into a feature-length documentary, 3212 Un-Redacted, which aired on Hulu.
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