FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau ‘would not tolerate’ leakers of classified intel.
By Catholics for Catholics
An Army veteran from Fort Bragg who aided the elite Delta Force unit was arrested under a charge that she leaked classified information to a journalist.
Courtney Williams, 40, appeared Wednesday in federal court in Raleigh, North Carolina, to face a criminal complaint of unlawful transmission of national defense information.
Williams, who was assigned to a Special Military Unit (SMU) at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday and charged with unlawfully providing national defense information, including classified tactics used in covert missions, to an investigative reporter over a period spanning several years, federal prosecutors allege, according to a story by Fox News.
Williams allegedly had a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance and had direct access to highly sensitive operational details, including tactics, techniques and procedures — commonly known as TTPs — used elite military units.
The complaint against Williams states that she allegedly violated 18 U.S.C. § 793(d), the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a news release Wednesday.
Between 2022 and 2025, Williams allegedly communicated at length with a journalist, including phone calls lasting hundreds of minutes and roughly 180 text messages, while also sending documents and materials that were later published in an article and book identifying her as the source.
FBI Director Kash Patel said after the arrest that the Bureau “will not tolerate” leakers of classified intel.
“Let this serve as a message to any would-be leakers: we’re working these cases, and we’re making arrests,” Patel wrote. “This FBI will not tolerate those who seek to betray our country and put Americans in harm’s way.”
According to Fox News, The Associated Press reported that though the journalist is not named in the court filings, “dates and details match” both an article and book written by Seth Harp about the Army’s Delta Force.
An excerpt from Harp’s book, “The Fort Bragg Cartel” was published in Politico’s magazine last August under the title, “My Life Became a Living Hell: One Woman’s Career in Delta Force, the Army’s Most Elite Unit,” featuring Williams’ testimonials alleging sexual harassment while serving.
