Former ABC News producer James Gordon Meek was just arrested and charged with possession of child pornography months after the FBI raided his home and took his electronics following a tip-off from Dropbox that Meeks had uploaded some horrific videos. Meek was not just an ABC News figure, but also part of the national security establishment, as his ABC bio notes, saying:
James Gordon Meek is an award-winning investigative journalist and former Senior Counterterrorism Advisor and Investigator for the House Committee on Homeland Security. 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 Sept. 11, 2001, and on combat patrols with Special Operators and U.S. infantrymen in Afghanistan. James has looked terrorists in the eye such as 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed at Guantanamo, “shoe bomber” Richard Reid and Jose Padilla inside the “Supermax” federal prison, and Zacarias Moussaoui in a Virginia courtroom. He has broken major exclusives such as a plot to bomb New York City tunnels, and he waged a five-year investigation into the fratricide death in Iraq of a G.I. he knew, Pfc. David H. Sharrett II, which resulted in the commanders responsible being held accountable.
Interestingly, when Jeffrey Epstein was given a slap on the wrist for his horrific crimes, Alexander Acosta was apparently told to back off because he was an “intelligence” asset, as Acosta said when undergoing the confirmation process for the Secretary of Labor position, saying “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.”
In any case, Meek is now being charged with child porn offenses, as ABC itself reported, saying:
A criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of Virginia alleges James Gordon Meek, who resigned from ABC News in April last year, engaged in sexually graphic and explicit conversations as he received and shared images of child sexual abuse dating back to as far as 2014.
The complaint states that Meek’s residence was searched on April 27 last year after a tip was sent to the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force. The tip reported child pornography had been found in a Dropbox cloud storage account and that a username associated with the account was Meek’s.
During the search of his residence, law enforcement seized an iPhone as well as an external hard drive that allegedly contained hundreds of images depicting children engaged in sexual acts, according to the complaint. Meek is also alleged to have participated in group chats where users exchanged pictures and videos of child pornography.
A review of Meek’s Snapchat account on the iPhone, according to the affidavit, also revealed Meek communicated with an unidentified minor who he allegedly pressured to provide him with sexually explicit pictures.
Adding more details ,the affidavit said “Review of the electronic devices seized during the search warrant has also resulted in significant evidence that MEEK has engaged directly, and attempted to engage, with minors online on platforms and applications other than Snapchat.”
By: Will Tanner. Follow me on Twitter @Will_Tanner_1
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