A former civilian employee at Fort Bragg has been charged under the Espionage Act after she spoke to a journalist about alleged sexual harassment and race-based discrimination inside Delta Force, the US Army's most secretive counterterrorism unit.
On 8 April 2026, the FBI arrested Courtney Williams, 40, of Wagram, North Carolina. A federal grand jury indicted her the same day on a charge of unlawfully transmitting national defence information to a journalist, in alleged violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(d) of the 1917 Espionage Act. According to the Department of Justice press release, Williams worked for a Special Military Unit (SMU) at Fort Bragg from 2010 to 2016 and held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance.
The journalist at the centre of the case, investigative reporter Seth Harp, has publicly identified Williams as a whistleblower who exposed a culture of gender discrimination and sexual harassment within Delta Force, and called the prosecution 'a vindictive act of retaliation, plain and simple.'
Court documents allege that between 2022 and 2025, Williams communicated repeatedly with a journalist via telephone and text messages. According to the DOJ, those communications comprised more than ten hours of phone calls and over 180 messages. Prosecutors allege that some of the statements Williams made to the journalist contained information that US Army officials later classified as SECRET,...
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