I just...
Don’t understand the mentality that can do this...
The FBI arrested Courtney Williams, 40, of Wagram, North Carolina yesterday and a federal grand jury indicted her today in connection with her alleged transmission of classified national defense information to individuals not authorized to receive it, including a journalist (the Journalist). Williams allegedly violated 18 U.S.C. § 793(d).
“Clearance holders accept a solemn obligation to protect the classified information entrusted to them,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg. “That they do so is critical to the security of our Nation. When clearance holders violate that trust, the National Security Division will act swiftly to hold them accountable.”
“We trust our war fighting individuals to cooperate as a team to protect our military and country,” said U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Ellis Boyle. “We will pursue criminal charges to keep these warriors safe whenever we find leakers exalting their own feelings over the safety of the United States.”
Full article, HERE from DOJ OPA website.
I guess the real irony is the ‘journalist’ is the one that outed her in the article, by name...
She had TS/SCI clearance, and had signed Nondisclosure Agreements (NDAs), which include wording that distribution of ANY of those documents or other things are prosecutable...
So why did she do this for four years??? Was it money? Pissed off at the Army???
WHY???
I cannot fathom anyone doing this, much less to the actual people she worked with every day. I only hope she is convicted and sent to jail for MANY years.
I dig it, she shot her mouth off and got caught. Her story arc is questionable enough to make me wonder “who” grants these clearances in the first place. #47 went off about a journalist blowing the story open on the missing WSO in Iran and this POS gets arrested, and I even mistaked the situation that “she” was the WSO leaker.
I think using “rolling stone” and journalist is the same sentence goes over like a turd in the punch bowl, but I’m Gen X.
That "journalist" looks to be a real piece of work in search of a headline. Army veteran, former lawyer, former assistant attorney general of Texas, and current editor at Rolling Stone.
Might be both had axes to grind. And one was definitely hunting a sensational headline. Curious why the journalist isn't being recalled to active duty, along with the leaker, to face military justice? 🤔