He has Bachelor of Arts degrees with honors in 1987 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Social Thought and Political Economy as well as Journalism.
In 2017 Meyer reported on actions taken by the Obama administration to prevent Hezbollah drug-trafficking activities from being closed down because of fears it would affect relations with Iran.
An official spokesperson said he had relied on "low-level, ideological sources", but Meyer said he had "spent months of meticulous reporting" on the story.
[3] Meyer co-authored The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of The Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (2012) with Terry McDermott.
[4] He was a screenwriter and executive producer for the 2000 network TV crime thriller show Level 9 with mystery novelist Michael Connelly and consults on documentary films such as Morgan Spurlock's 2008 documentary Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?.