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  • Security and Accountability Correspondent, USA Today
Washington, D.C.
As seen in: USA Today, MSN, MSN Canada, MSN Ireland, Yahoo Entertainment, MSN France, MSN South Africa, Reuters, The Washington Post, TIME, Yahoo Canada and
Covers:  national security, foreign policy, corruption, human trafficking, foreign aid, cybercrime, organized crime, trafficking, drug war, military contracting, terrorism, military, cyberwarfare, cybersecurity, corporate malfeasance, drug trafficking, corporate security, fcpa, global security, nuclear proliferation
Doesn't Cover: dancing kittens
Security/Accountability Correspondent, @USAToday. Trump 2.0, DHS, DOJ, CIA. Tips: jmeyer@usatoday.com. RTs aren't endorsements.

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Josh Meyer’s Biography

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Josh Meyer left the Los Angeles Times in 2010 to help launch the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative in Washington, D.C., which aims to find the best ways to do, and to teach, the all-important kinds of security journalism in this changing media environment——especially across all digital platforms.
Its subjects include terrorism, war, nuclear proliferation, counternarcotics, organized crime, corruption, black markets and trafficking, and intelligence and law enforcement reform.
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Josh Meyer’s Journalist Portfolio

Move over Tim Cook: The real face of global supply chains is a Mexican drug kingpin

Move over Tim Cook: The real face of global supply chains is a Mexican drug kingpin

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, the head of Mexico's notorious Sinaloa Federation, has been a busy man in re…

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The worst possible cybersecurity breaches could be far worse than you imagined

The worst possible cybersecurity breaches could be far worse than you imagined

The cyber-ruffians who briefly tanked the stock market recently by faking a news tweet about an attack at the…

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US military: China is trying to steal our computer, night vision and aerospace technology

US military: China is trying to steal our computer, night vision and aerospace technology

The good news out of today's annual US Defense Department report on China is that the People's Liberation Arm…

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Bringing a terror mastermind to justice

Bringing a terror mastermind to justice

Four months after retaliation for the 9/11 attacks he masterminded brought devastation to al Qaeda's haven in…

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Insight: At Guantanamo tribunals, don't mention the T word

Insight: At Guantanamo tribunals, don't mention the T word

Investigative piece on problems at Guantanamo, especially in the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other ac…

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Articles

Pentagon hires Jan. 6 rioter from SC for sensitive special operations role

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By Josh Meyer 
| The Greenville News
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has appointed a convicted and pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to a Pentagon job in the office overseeing top-secret counterterrorism and special operations matters. Elias Irizarry, a military college cadet who was 19 at the time of the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, has been assigned to the Pentagon's Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict office, an agency spokesman told USA TODAY on June 4. It was first reported by The Washington Post on June 2.
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Pentagon hires Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive special operations role

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By Josh Meyer 
| Currently
Josh Meyer, USA TODAY Thu, June 4, 2026 at 8:25 PM UTC 5 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has appointed a convicted and pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to a Pentagon job in the office overseeing top-secret counterterrorism and special operations matters.
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Pentagon hires Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive special operations role

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By Josh Meyer 
| Yahoo Canada
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has appointed a convicted and pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to a Pentagon job in the office overseeing top-secret counterterrorism and special operations matters. Elias Irizarry, a military college cadet who was 19 at the time of the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, has been assigned to the Pentagon's Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict office, an agency spokesman told USA TODAY on June 4. It was first reported by The Washington Post on June 2.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

At my college newspaper at UMass, aptly named The Collegian. Most fun I ever had.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

It's making it much better, and much worse

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