India, April 9 -- Courtney Williams, a US army veteran, was arrested by the FBI for allegedly leaking Delta Force secrets to journalist Seth Harp. The DOJ noted that a grand jury had indicted the 40-year-old for 'alleged transmission of classified national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, including a journalist (the Journalist)'.

Williams exchanged several messages with Harp, who has not been named in the DOJ document. He wrote a book and an accompanying article for Politico, which highlighted Williams throughout. The two exchanged about 180 text messages between 2022 and 2025.

In one of the messages, Williams said she was 'concerned about the amount of classified information being disclosed'. In a separa...