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- 摘要
- 考特尼·威廉姆斯于周三被大陪审团起诉
- 她曾在布拉格堡的一支特种军事单位工作
- 特朗普政府对媒体和向媒体泄密表达过不满
华盛顿4月8日路透电 —— 美国司法部表示，一名美国陆军退伍军人周三被起诉，罪名是向一名记者提供机密信息，用于一本爆料其曾服役的军事基地存在贩毒、谋杀和腐败问题的书籍。
现年40岁的考特尼·威廉姆斯来自北卡罗来纳州瓦格拉姆，她被联邦大陪审团起诉，罪名涉及“她涉嫌向无权获取信息的个人传递涉密国防信息，包括一名记者”，司法部在一份声明中称。检察官指控威廉姆斯违反了《美国间谍法》的相关条款。
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此案正值言论自由倡导者担忧特朗普政府对因不满美国政策和行动而爆料的政府雇员向媒体泄密采取强硬立场之际。
司法部表示，威廉姆斯于2010年至2016年在北卡罗来纳州布拉格堡的美军基地一支特种军事单位工作，并持有“最高机密/敏感分隔信息安全许可”。
检察官指控，2022年至2025年间，威廉姆斯多次通过电话和短信与一名为撰写文章和书籍而寻求该单位相关信息的记者沟通。司法部称，威廉姆斯与该记者的通话时长超过10小时，交换了超过180条信息。
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尽管法庭文件未指明该记者身份，但记者赛斯·哈普去年出版了一本名为《布拉格堡贩毒集团：特种部队中的贩毒与谋杀》的书籍，并附带发表了一篇文章，将威廉姆斯列为消息来源，并将具体言论归咎于她。
司法部指控，其中部分言论包含“涉密国防信息”。检察官还称，威廉姆斯通过其社交媒体账户进行了他们所谓的未经授权的国防信息披露。
目前无法立即联系到威廉姆斯的代表置评。
哈普在起诉消息传出后表示，威廉姆斯是一名“勇敢的举报人，揭露了美国陆军三角洲部队中普遍存在的性别歧视和性骚扰问题”。他还表示，威廉姆斯希望在其作品中被点名，并将对她的指控描述为“模糊且无力”。
司法部援引了威廉姆斯在该书出版后发给该记者的信息，其中她表达了对“被披露的机密信息数量”的担忧。检察官称，她还曾发给另一名司法部未指明身份的人，表达了自己可能因泄密而被捕的恐惧。
根据对威廉姆斯的起诉文件，她在2010年加入该特种军事单位时以及离职时都签署了涉密信息保密协议。
此前的美国政府也曾在极少数情况下对向媒体爆料揭露政府不当行为的消息源提起法律诉讼，最早可追溯至越南战争时期的“五角大楼文件”，近期则是本世纪的伊拉克战争日志。
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US Army veteran charged with leaking classified information to journalist
2026-04-09 01:12:56 UTC / Reuters
By Kanishka Singh
April 9, 2026 1:12 AM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
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- Summary
- Courtney Williams was indicted by grand jury on Wednesday
- She used to work for a special military unit at Fort Bragg
- Trump administration has expressed frustration with media and leaks to the press
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – A U.S. Army veteran was charged on Wednesday with providing classified information to a journalist for a book that alleged drug trafficking, murder and corruption at a military base where she had worked, the Department of Justice said.
Courtney Williams, 40, of Wagram, North Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to “her alleged transmission of classified national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, including a journalist,” the Justice Department said in a statement. Prosecutors alleged Williams violated a provision of the U.S. Espionage Act.
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The case comes as free-speech advocates have raised concerns about the Trump administration’s aggressive posture toward media leaks from government employees upset with U.S. policies and actions.
Williams worked from 2010 to 2016 for a special military unit at the U.S. Army base in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and held a “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance,” the Justice Department said.
Prosecutors allege that between 2022 and 2025, Williams repeatedly communicated by phone and text message with a journalist who was seeking information for an article and book about the unit. Williams and the journalist spent more than 10 hours on phone calls and exchanged more than 180 messages, the department said.
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While court filings did not identify the reporter, journalist Seth Harp wrote a book published last year titled “The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces” and an accompanying article that named Williams as a source and attributed specific statements to her.
The Justice Department alleged that some of those statements contained “classified national defense information.” Prosecutors also said Williams made what they called unauthorized disclosures of national defense information through her social media accounts.
A representative for Williams could not immediately be reached for comment.
Harp said after the indictment that Williams was a “courageous whistleblower who exposed rampant gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the U.S. Army’s Delta Force.” He also said Williams wanted to be quoted by name in his work and cast the charges against her as “vague and weak.”
The Justice Department cited messages from Williams to the journalist from the time of the book’s release in which she expressed concerns “about the amount of classified information being disclosed.” She also messaged another person the department did not identify expressing fear that she might get arrested for the disclosure, prosecutors said.
Williams signed a classified information non-disclosure agreement when she joined the special military unit in 2010 and again when she left that job, according to the complaint filed against her.
Prior U.S. administrations have on rare occasions also pursued legal cases against sources of leaks to the media that have aimed to expose government wrongdoing, dating as far back as the “Pentagon Papers” from the Vietnam War and as recently as the Iraq war logs in this century.
Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Lincoln Feast.
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