Former Army Employee Indicted for Classified Leak

A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted Courtney Williams, a 40-year-old former Army employee from Wagram, on Wednesday for allegedly leaking classified national defense information to a journalist between 2022 and 2025. The charges stem from her time supporting a Special Military Unit, where she held top-secret clearance, and could result in up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

Williams was arrested Tuesday by the FBI's Charlotte field office in coordination with the Justice Department's National Security Division. Prosecutors allege she violated federal law by transmitting sensitive details about the unit's operations, tradecraft, and tactics through more than 10 hours of phone calls and over 180 text messages with the journalist. She also reportedly shared documents, photographs, and notes via email and a removable hard drive in at least 10 batches, some of which contained classified material later published in an article and a book.

From 2010 to 2016, Williams worked in a support role for the Army's Special Military Unit, gaining daily access to a wide array of classified information. She underwent training on handling such data and signed a nondisclosure agreement...