James Gordon Meek is an award-winning investigative journalist for ABC News and a 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 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 at Guantanamo, "shoe bomber" Richard Reid and "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla inside the Supermax federal prison, and Zacarias Moussaoui at his trial. He has broken major stories and exclusives, such as the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and about American hostages, their families, and special operations rescues, and also conducted a five-year investigation into the fratricidal death in Iraq of Army Pfc. David H. Sharrett II, which resulted in accountability for the commanders responsible.
