Army Veteran Faces Charges for Allegedly Sharing Classified Information About Special Military Unit

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:11:00 +0200

Courtney Williams, a 40-year-old Army veteran from Wagram, North Carolina, has been charged with violating the Espionage Act and multiple nondisclosure agreements by allegedly sharing classified information regarding a special military unit at Fort Bragg with a journalist. Authorities say her actions put national security, military personnel, and allied nations at risk. Williams, who worked as an operational support technician within the unit, was cleared as a defense contractor in 2010 and became a Department of Defense employee later that year. She was debriefed in 2015 and signed a nondisclosure agreement. Between 2022 and 2025, Williams allegedly shared classified details over more than ten hours of calls and 180 messages with a journalist coinciding with the publication of an article and a book discussing Delta Force, the Army’s elite commando unit. While the reporter and unit remain unnamed in court filings, the content corresponds with publicly available works by journalist Seth