(The Center Square) – Four counts against a North Carolinian accused of communicating and disclosing national defense information could be punishable for 10 years each.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Meyers on Monday released Courtney Williams to home detention and location monitoring. She awaits a potential trial at a date to be determined in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Raleigh for potential violations of the Espionage Act.
Williams could also face monetary fines. Prosecutors say violations happened between 2022 and 2025 from her time spent with an elite Fort Bragg unit between 2010 and 2016.
Williams, 40, shared classified information with a journalist, says the complaint from the U.S. Department of Justice. She was indicted on Wednesday a day after arrest.
Williams had a top secret/sensitive compartmented information security clearance while working for a special military unit, says the Department of Justice.
The reporter and specific unit are not identified in court documents. Dates and details, published reports say, match an article and book about the Army’s Delta Force written by Seth Harp.
Harp’s published release of “The Fort Bragg Cartel,” with accusations of sexual harassment and discrimination, came out in 2025 when Politico published a story under the headline, “My Life Became a Living Hell: One Woman’s Career in Delta Force, the Army’s Most Elite Unit.”
