Emmy-winning producer James Gordon Meek had his home raided by the FBI. His colleagues say they haven’t seen him since.
  • blobjim [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    lol when a propagandist for the empire does something inconveniencing to the government so they send a massive SWAT team to his home to kidnap him.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I mean they do that for petty marijuana possession and residential code violations, too.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        yeah I guess it's more of a "better safe than sorry" sort of thing 🤷‍♂️

  • spectre [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Interesting article, wonder if we'll ever hear about this guy again, cause it sounds like he's someone who had a solid "plan B" in case something like this ever happened.

    Also wonder if he has some more info to dump if he were to get asylum somewhere first, but that's probably just being hopeful cause I really want to know what got the FBI up his ass (Ukraine stuff? could be any number of things from the sounds of it).

  • rubpoll [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Sources familiar with the matter say federal agents allegedly found classified information on Meek’s laptop during their raid.

    Meek worked on extremely sensitive topics — from high-profile terrorists to Americans held abroad to the exploits of Erik Prince, the founder of the infamous military contractor Blackwater. In recent years, some of Meek’s highest-profile reporting delved into a 2017 ambush by ISIS in Niger that left four American Green Berets dead. Meek and ABC then adapted the story into the feature-length documentary 3212 Un-Redacted

    The story was particularly incendiary because it undermined the Pentagon’s official narrative of what happened on the ground in the African nation, and presented “evidence of a cover-up at the highest levels of the Army,” according to the film’s logline.

    Even stranger, 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, a retired Green Beret. Meek even featured a picture of the soon-to-publish book in his bio on social media and frequently tweeted about his involvement. But post-April 27, the book-jacket photo disappeared from his bio, and Simon & Schuster has scrubbed his name from all press materials.

    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.” Now it says: “In April, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas.”

    what the absolute fuck they're straight-up disappearing him.

  • culpritus [any]
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    2 years ago

    so habeas corpus no longer exists, right?

    like did I miss the part where they said if he was in custody or not?

    very cool free country with civil rights and shit

      • culpritus [any]
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        2 years ago

        :jesse-wtf:

        Habeas corpus (/ˈheɪbiəs ˈkɔːrpəs/ (listen); from Medieval Latin, lit. 'that you have the body')[1] is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.[2]

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus

  • rubpoll [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    “Most people seeing that green vehicle would think it’s some kind of tank. But I knew it was the Lenco BearCat. That vehicle is designed to be jumped out of so they can do a raid in that kind of time. It can return fire if they’re being fired upon.”

    :brace-cowboy:

  • fifthedition [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    OK...so the unelected US government is now attacking their own side? Red on red situation? I'm so confused.

    My first thought was he was a kiddie fiddler. (Boy, isn't that sad when the first thing I thought when I saw "journalist raided by FBI" is "he must be a pedophile".) But I guess not? He had some classified documents so they busted him? So did Hillary Clinton and they didn't prosecute her.