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作者：雅各布·罗森
雅各布·罗森 司法部记者
杰克·罗森是负责报道美国司法部的记者。此前他曾担任竞选数字记者，报道特朗普总统2024年竞选活动，还曾担任《与玛格丽特·布伦南会面》节目的助理制片人。
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雅各布·罗森
根据周三公开的法庭文件，一名前陆军雇员因涉嫌向记者泄露一支秘密军事部队的机密信息被捕并被起诉。
联邦检察官在刑事起诉书中指控，北卡罗来纳州瓦格拉姆的考特尼·威廉姆斯在2022年至2024年间向一名未具名记者泄露了有关她在三角洲部队服役经历的机密信息。三角洲部队是美国陆军特种军事单位（SMU）。
根据起诉书，威廉姆斯在2010年至2016年间受雇于陆军，此前她曾担任承包商并服过兵役，持有最高级别的绝密安全许可。检察官表示，威廉姆斯于2016年离职，此前在2015年和2016年进行的内部调查导致她的机密信息访问权限被暂停。
她被控一项非法传播或传递国防信息罪，若罪名成立，最高可判处10年监禁。法庭记录显示，她于周二被捕，并在4月13日的预审前被下令暂时羁押。
根据起诉书中附带的联邦调查局宣誓书，威廉姆斯与这名记者通过短信以及“持续且频繁的电话通话”“讨论了威廉姆斯在特种军事单位的工作经历及相关信息”。宣誓书还指控威廉姆斯“通过可移动硬盘和电子邮件分十批向记者提供了文件、照片、笔记和/或其他材料，其中部分材料可能包含机密国防信息，这些信息随后被刊登在报道和书籍中”。
威廉姆斯在一篇《政客》杂志文章中作为知情人士出镜，该文章披露了三角洲部队所谓的不当行为。三角洲部队是一支秘密军事单位，总部位于此处。这篇由赛思·哈普撰写的文章改编自他即将在文章发表后不久出版的书籍。调查人员还表示，文章中包含威廉姆斯关于她在该部队服役经历的公开声明。报道中也附有威廉姆斯的照片。
哈普周三晚些时候在社交媒体上发表声明，称威廉姆斯是一名“勇敢的举报人，她揭露了三角洲部队内部普遍存在的性别歧视和性骚扰问题”。
“我相信司法部这份仓促的起诉书，其中包含大量断章取义、误导性的引述，经过仔细审查后必将站不住脚，”哈普说。“与此同时，考特尼被推定无罪，有权获得法律规定的正当程序。”
联邦调查局的宣誓书指控威廉姆斯在刊登其相关信息的《政客》文章发表当天接受了记者采访，并表示负责特种军事单位保密审查的官员“审查了文章中的信息，认定其中包含应被归类为‘秘密’级别的信息”。
检察官表示，在去年8月书籍出版后，威廉姆斯曾给记者发短信称，她“对书中披露的大量机密信息感到担忧”，还在给母亲的短信中表示，她担心自己“因泄露机密信息而被捕”。
检察官还称，威廉姆斯在发给其他人的另一条短信中表示，她“可能会因所谓的泄密行为被判终身监禁”。
威廉姆斯已被指定联邦公设辩护人，但截至周三晚间，法庭文件中未公开律师的相关信息。
联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔在X平台的社交媒体帖子中表示，威廉姆斯的被捕应该“向所有潜在泄密者传递一个信号：我们正在侦办这些案件，并且正在实施逮捕。联邦调查局绝不会容忍那些试图背叛我们国家、将美国人置于危险境地的人”。
Ex-Army employee charged with leaking classified military information to reporter
April 8, 2026 / 10:38 PM EDT / CBS News
By Jacob Rosen
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Jake Rosen is a reporter covering the Department of Justice. He was previously a campaign digital reporter covering President Trump’s 2024 campaign and also served as an associate producer for “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
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A former Army employee was arrested and charged with allegedly leaking classified information about a covert military force to a reporter, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Courtney Williams of Wagram, North Carolina, divulged classified information to an unnamed reporter between 2022 and 2024 about her time in Delta Force, a U.S. Army Special Military Unit, or SMU.
According to the complaint, Williams worked for the Army between 2010 and 2016 after serving as a contractor and previously enlisting, and held a top secret security clearance. Williams left in 2016, after investigators said she had her access to classified information suspended, “based on an internal investigation” conducted in 2015 and 2016.
She is charged with one count of illegally communicating or transmitting national defense information, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Court records show she was arrested Tuesday and was ordered to be temporarily detained in jail ahead of a preliminary hearing on April 13.
According to an FBI affidavit included in the complaint, Williams and the reporter “discussed William’s employment at the SMU and associated information” in texts and “consistent and extensive phone conversations.” The affidavit also alleges that Williams “provided documents, photographs, notes, and/or other materials to the Journalist, some of which likely contained classified NDI that was subsequently published in the Article and the Book,” through a removable hard drive and emails in ten document batches.
Williams was featured prominently in a Politico article as an on-the-record voice in a story profiling alleged misconduct in Delta Force, a covert military unit where Delta Force is headquartered. That article, by Seth Harp, was adapted from his book, which was to be published shortly after the article. Investigators also said the article includes on-the-record statements from Williams about her time with the unit. Photos of Williams also appear in the report.
In a statement posted to social media late Wednesday, Harp described Williams as a “courageous whistleblower who exposed rampant gender discrimination and sexual harassment” in Delta Force.
“I am confident that the DOJ’s slapdash indictment, full of misleading juxtaposed quotations taken out of context, will fall apart upon careful scrutiny,” Harp said. “In the meantime, Courtney is presumed innocent and is entitled to the due process of the law.”
The FBI affidavit alleges Williams spoke to a reporter on the day the Politico article featuring her was published and says officials overseeing classification of the Special Military Unit “reviewed the information within the Article and determined that it contained information that is properly classified as SECRET.”
After the book was published last August, the prosecutors said Williams texted the reporter that she was “concerned with the amount of classified information being disclosed” in the book,” and that she wrote in a text message to her mother that she feared being arrested “for disclosing classified information.”
In another text message to someone else, prosecutors allege that Williams said she was “probably going to jail for life” for her alleged disclosures.
Williams was appointed a federal defender, but no attorney information was publicly listed in court filings as of Wednesday evening.
In a social media post on X, FBI Director Kash Patel said that William’s arrest should “serve as a message to any would-be leakers: we’re working these cases, and we’re making arrests. This FBI will not tolerate those who seek to betray our country and put Americans in harm’s way.”
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