His father, John Martin Meek, had been a lobbyist and speechwriter for
John F. Kennedy,
Lyndon Johnson and
Bobby Kennedy. Meek initially wrote political articles for the
CD-ROM magazine Blender, leading to 1995 accreditation with the
Periodical Press Galleries. Meek and his partner Mike Rosenberg formed the "irreverent"
Gridlock webzine to apply for accreditation to the Senate Periodical Press Gallery but were denied as the webzine could not be the pair's primary source of income. In August 1996, both men were "shown the door" by
Blender for a "poor attitude". Meek was the last person to interview
William Colby, for a story on the
assassination of John F. Kennedy, as the former
CIA director was found dead days later. Meek and Rosenberg then founded "Digital Culture Interactive News", which wrote stories about their
Gridlock webzine, and sent submissions to ''
Reader's Digest''. Meek was thanked in the
EPA director's 2000 book on the subject of
Public relations. Meek wrote extensively on the
death of Dave Sharrett II, whose father had taught Meek at
Langley High School. Meek wrote of his "deep friendship" with the family of
Caitlan Coleman, and is a personal friend of constitutional lawyer
Mark Zaid. supermax prison, and "cementing ties with Navy SEAL, Special Operations Command, Pentagon lead on front lines". From 2005 to 2006, Meek helped
Peter Bergen and Bergen's wife, Tresha Mabile, release the best-selling book
The Osama bin Laden I Know. Legal author
Stuart Taylor Jr. accused Meek of "
classist" coverage falsely suggesting guilt of the wrongly-accused defendants in the 2006
Duke lacrosse case. In 2011, Meek was hired as a senior counter-terrorism investigator for the
House Committee on Homeland Security, although he was unsure why Congressman
Peter King had spontaneously offered him the position as he had not sought any such employment—though Meek noted he'd written widely on terrorism and his third cousin's wife had been killed in the 1995
Oklahoma City bombing. In 2013, Meek was hired as a senior investigative producer for
ABC News'
20/20,
Good Morning America,
ABC World News Tonight and
Nightline programming from 2013 to 2022. In 2017 Meek wrote an article about Russian disinformation in the Syrian war wherein he referred to "the debunked
Pizzagate conspiracy theory", which drew viral attention with exaggerated suggestions Meek had said much more, after his guilty plea to judge
Claude Hilton. Meek appeared as a panelist, together with Ewen and Coleman, at the 2021 Double Exposure Film Festival. According to
Fox News, although he never served in the military, he chose to dress in "typical military-style getup" . ==Child pornography prosecution==