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If you’re a former member of the U.S. military or a civilian who was entrusted with some pretty serious security clearances, it’s probably not a good idea to save top-secret documents on your computer with the file names “Batch 1 for Reporter” and “Batch 2 for Reporter.” Also, it’s probably not a good idea to put any communication to a reporter, which you want to conceal, in writing. But a veteran of U.S. Army Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and former civilian employee named Courtney Williams allegedly did just that, and much more.CBS News reports that Williams faces a charge of one count of “illegally communicating or transmitting national defense information, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison if convicted.” In their criminal complaint, federal prosecutors allege that Williams disclosed classified information to an unidentified reporter between 2022 and 2024, most of it centered on her work with the U.S. Army’s elite Special Military Unit (SMU) Delta Force. While not identified in the complaint, a journalist named Seth Harp authored a book titled The Fort Bragg Cartel: drug trafficking and murder in the Special Forces, which hit bookstores in August 2025. In the book and in a companion article for Politico, Harp provides explicit detail on Williams’ alleged experiences with sexual harassment and discrimination while she was part of Delta Force....The complaint also mentions Williams’ unimaginative filing system for her top-secret batches of files “for reporter” – 10 of them in all. The complaint indicates that some of the information was “properly classified as SECRET,” and that “The classified information comprised, in part, specific Tactics, Techniques & Procedures (TTPs) utilized by this (SMU) to execute sensitive missions.” WRAL-TV reported, “Harp declined an interview, but provided this statement about the charge against Williams: ‘Courtney Williams is a brave whistleblower and truth-teller. ...
Ex-Delta Force Staffer Faces Charge of Leaking Classified Info to Reporterhttps://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/04/09/ex-delta-force-staffer-faces-charge-of-leaking-classified-info-to-reporter-n4951601My emphasis. Yet another of the lesser benefits of Trump being President. Neither LIEden nor Kammie would have prosecuted her.
No indeed. And that explains why the files were so carelessly named. She thought she'd get away with it.
