{"id":71235,"date":"2026-04-08T21:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/fbi-arrests-ex-fort-bragg-employee-over-alleged-classified-leak-to-journalist\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:57:42","slug":"fbi-arrests-ex-fort-bragg-employee-over-alleged-classified-leak-to-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/fbi-arrests-ex-fort-bragg-employee-over-alleged-classified-leak-to-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI arrests ex-Fort Bragg employee over alleged classified leak to journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Williams accused of sharing material with reporter examining deaths and drugs at US military base<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has arrested a former military special operations employee accused of providing classified information to the media, the agency\u2019s director Kash Patel <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBIDirectorKash\/status\/2041992640598622272?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">announced<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Justice said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-army-employee-and-top-secret-clearance-holder-arrested-and-charged-leaking-classified\">in a press release<\/a> that the former employee, identified as Courtney Williams, 40, was arrested on Tuesday and indicted on Wednesday for allegedly sharing classified material with a journalist.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/08\/fbi-arrests-ex-military-employee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Williams accused of sharing material with reporter examining deaths and drugs at US military base The FBI has arrested a former military special operations employee accused of providing classified information to the media, the agency\u2019s director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday. The US Department of Justice said in a press release that the former &#8230; <a title=\"FBI arrests ex-Fort Bragg employee over alleged classified leak to journalist\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/fbi-arrests-ex-fort-bragg-employee-over-alleged-classified-leak-to-journalist\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FBI arrests ex-Fort Bragg employee over alleged classified leak to journalist\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}