FBI raid on former ABC News investigative producer ‘was NOT related to his work’

The “disappearance” of a former ABC News producer six months ago may not be as mysterious as it initially seemed, according to a new report — with sources saying the veteran journalist quit his job to avoid embarrassment to the network, his home. left, and now lives with his mother.

James Gordon Meek, 52, was reported missing by Rolling Stone last week.

They said he ‘abruptly’ quit his job at the news station; withdrew from the book he was writing about Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan; and has kept a low profile ever since.

People speculated online that Meek’s work with classified documents was behind the raid.

“Independent observers believe the raid is one of the first — and possibly the first — to be carried out on a journalist by the Biden administration,” the magazine reported.

Still on Monday The everyday beast reported that Meek had not disappeared, but was living with his mother.

Meek hasn’t been seen since April: Friends told The Daily Beast he lives with his mother

The Siena Apartments in Arlington, Virginia, where Meek lived. He hasn’t been seen there for months and it was reported on Monday that he now lives with his mother

Meek’s apartment building, where he lived until April in Arlington, Virginia

The site reported that Meek resigned from ABC News – what he had joined in April 2013after working at the New York Daily News – on April 27.

He said his resignation was due to “personal reasons” and told friends it was to “embarrass colleagues and the company.”

The FBI raid on his apartment was the same day.

The FBI declined to comment on their raid on his home in Arlington, Virginia, but the Justice Department said it had nothing to do with his work.

“While the department cannot speak about a specific case or activity, the department strictly adheres to the Attorney General’s July 2021 memorandum prohibiting the use of mandatory proceedings in relation to members of the news media acting under of news gathering,” said Dena Iverson. , deputy director of the DOJ’s Office of Public Affairs.

ABC News has not investigated Meeks’ “disappearance,” according to the Daily Beast.

An ABC News spokesperson told DailyMail.com last week that Meek resigned “abruptly”, but they would not be informed of the details of his departure.

“He stepped down very abruptly and hasn’t worked for us for months,” they said.

Meek spent nine years at ABC before suddenly resigning.

Meek is pictured in a photo from his Twitter account – which has been inactive since April

The journalist had made a documentary about the activities of the US military in Niger

In the past, he was also a senior counter-terrorism adviser and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee.

He had also made a documentary about a separate US military mission in Niger, which he said exposed a cover-up.

Meek co-wrote this book with Lt. Col. Scott Mann, but he withdrew from the project in the spring due to personal issues. It was around the same time his house was robbed

Around the same time as the raid on his house, Meek also withdrew from the book on Afghanistan he had co-authored with Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret.

The book was published in August with only Lieutenant Colonel Mann as the author.

An earlier description of the book included a line about Meek being approached by a Special Forces operator abroad.

It read, “In April, ABC News correspondent James Gordon Meek received an urgent call from a Special Forces operator serving overseas.”

Now his name is not mentioned in the promotional text for the book.

Instead, the blurb reads: “In April, an urgent appeal was made by a Special Forces operator serving overseas.”

Meek has not commented on the saga.

His last tweets were on April 27 – the day of his resignation and raid.

Meek’s last tweet on April 27, the morning of the raid, was about how the US helped Ukraine in the war against Russia

Meek had also investigated the chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan

Eugene Gorokhov, Meek’s lawyer, said he knew nothing about classified documents, but that if Meek did have them, it would have been within the framework of his career as a journalist investigating national security and military operations.

“Mr. Meek does not know what allegations anonymous sources are making about his possession of classified documents,” he said.

“If such documents exist, as alleged, it would be within the scope of Mr Meek’s long career as an investigative journalist reporting on government misconduct.

“Press investigations about this are troubling for another reason: They appear to be based on statements from a government source.

“It is highly inappropriate and illegal for individuals in government to leak information about an ongoing investigation.”