Overview
- Courtney Williams, 40, was arrested Tuesday and indicted Wednesday on a charge of willful transmission of national defense information.
- Prosecutors say she shared classified tactics and other details from an elite Army unit after more than 10 hours of calls and over 180 messages with a reporter from 2022 to 2025.
- The complaint describes files saved as “Batch for Reporter,” a thumb drive she mailed with documents and photos, and texts where she worried that classified material had been published.
- She is being held pending a preliminary hearing, is represented by a federal public defender, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted, and FBI leaders warned that unauthorized disclosures put troops and operations at risk.
- Justice Department filings do not name the reporter, but coverage identifies him as Seth Harp, who defends Williams as a whistleblower for exposing sexual harassment and discrimination inside Delta Force.