前布拉格堡雇员因向记者泄露机密信息遭起诉


2026年4月8日 美国东部时间17:45 / 美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)
作者:霍尔姆斯·莱布兰德

2020年1月4日拍摄的北卡罗来纳州布拉格堡入口处标识

一名北卡罗来纳州女子因曾在该州大型美军基地布拉格堡担任平民作战支援技术员,期间向记者泄露国防机密信息,现已遭到起诉。

起诉书文件显示,考特尼·威廉姆斯2010年至2016年在某特种军事单位工作,拥有绝密级安全许可,能够接触大量机密材料。

联邦检察官指控,2022年至2025年间,威廉姆斯向一名记者泄露了机密信息,该记者将这些信息用于撰写一篇关于布拉格堡的报道和一本书。

虽然法庭记录未提及该记者的姓名,但独立记者赛思·哈普去年出版的书籍《布拉格堡卡特尔》以及同期发表的杂志文章,都对威廉姆斯及其指称的职场骚扰和虐待经历进行了报道。

起诉书内容细节有限,仅指控威廉姆斯向记者分享了本不允许其对外提供的机密信息。

CNN正尝试联系威廉姆斯的代理律师。

哈普的报道详细描述了威廉姆斯所称其在这座北卡罗来纳州陆军基地工作期间遭遇的严重性骚扰和基于种族的歧视骚扰,部分骚扰她也曾亲身经历。

根据美国司法部的说法,在该书和报道发布当日,“威廉姆斯与该记者交换了多条消息”,并表示她“担忧机密信息泄露的程度”。

起诉书显示,威廉姆斯在与母亲的对话中说道:“我可能真的会被捕,可我连一本免费的样书都没拿到。”

Former Fort Bragg employee charged with leaking classified information to journalist

2026-04-08 17:45 PM ET / CNN

By Holmes Lybrand

A sign at an entrance gate at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is photographed on January 4, 2020.

Chris Seward/AP/File

A North Carolina woman has been charged with sharing classified defense information to a journalist following her work as a civilian operational support technician at Fort Bragg, a large US Army base in the state.

Courtney Williams worked in a Special Military Unit from 2010 to 2016 and had top secret clearance with access to a significant amount of classified material, charging documents say.

Federal prosecutors allege that from 2022 to 2025, Williams shared classified information that the journalist used in reporting for an article and book on Fort Bragg.

While court records do not name the journalist, a book “The Fort Bragg Cartel” and magazine article from independent reporter Seth Harp last year, profiles Williams and her allegations of harassment and abuse while employed at Fort Bragg.

With scant details, charging documents allege that information shared by Williams to the reporter included classified information she was not allowed to provide.

CNN is attempting to contact Williams’ attorney.

Harp’s article details the significant sexual and race-based harassment Williams says she saw and, at times, experienced during her work at the North Carolina army base.

According to the Justice Department, on the day the book and article were released, “Williams exchanged several messages with the Journalist” and said she was “concerned about the amount of classified information being disclosed.”

In a conversation with her mother, according to the indictment, Williams said, “I might actually get arrested, and I don’t even get a free copy of the book.”

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