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Ex-Army employee with top-secret clearance charged with leaking information to journalist
Prosecutors say she exchanged more than 180 messages and over 10 hours of calls with a reporter while sharing classified national defense information.
- On Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted Courtney Williams, a 40-year-old Army veteran from Wagram, North Carolina, on charges of transmitting classified national defense information to an unauthorized journalist.
- Prosecutors allege Williams provided classified tactics to investigative journalist Seth Harp for his 2025 book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, which examined drug trafficking and murder allegations at the military base.
- Evidence includes more than 180 messages and 10 hours of phone calls between the two, with the Justice Department claiming the disclosed material was classified as SECRET and marked NOFORN.
- Following her arrest Monday, Williams faces Espionage Act charges and allegedly told her mother she was "probably going to jail for life" for the disclosure.
- Harp claimed Williams is a whistleblower retaliated against for exposing misconduct, while FBI official Patel warned the agency "will not tolerate those who seek to betray our country.
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