A former Army employee has been indicted on charges of allegedly sharing classified information with a journalist, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
Courtney Williams, 40, held a top secret security clearance while working for a “special military unit” at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 2010 to 2016, the indictment states.
Prosecutors allege Williams communicated repeatedly with journalist and author Seth Harp between 2022 and 2025 via phone calls and text messages. During those exchanges, she allegedly provided “classified national defense information” that was later published in a book and a Politico magazine article.
Harp directly attributed statements to Williams in an August 2025 exposé detailing alleged sexual misconduct and drug trafficking within the Army’s elite Delta Force. It remains unclear which specific details in the reporting were classified. The indictment indicates the material involved sensitive “Tactics, Techniques and Procedures” used by the unit.
After the story was published, Williams allegedly expressed concern about the disclosures. In one message to Harp, she wrote that she would have been “concerned with the amount of classified information being disclosed” had she reviewed the material beforehand.
She added that she believed her comments were meant to provide general background, but instead “it feels like an entire TTP was sent out in my name.”
In messages cited in the indictment, Williams also told her mother she feared arrest, writing, “I might actually get arrested, and I don’t even get a free copy of the book.” When asked why, she replied: “For disclosing classified information.”
Williams is also accused of making unauthorized disclosures on social media.
Harp defended Williams in a statement posted online, calling her a “courageous whistleblower” and describing her arrest as “an outrage.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said the case should serve as a warning.
“This FBI will not tolerate those who seek to betray our country and put Americans in harm’s way,” Patel wrote on social media.
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Good now Prosecute her for Treason, and the reporter should be charged as well, if he was a decent journalist he would have turned her in but instead pyt our country in danger and the men that were shot down that is Treason and they need held responsible, so tired of these media asses that are out to destroy America, when they should have told of the obama scandals and Biden’s incompetence but they lied to protect the vile demoncrates that need removed immediately Proscuted all assets confiscated banned from ever working in any public or government office security clearance revoked permanently from everyone of these corrupt politicians