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Courtney Williams has been charged with communicating and transmitting classified information.
Court papers say the 40-year-old worked for a special military unit at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and that between 2022 and 2025, Williams had phone calls and text messages with a journalist in which she provided details about tactics, techniques, and procedures used by military operators.
The journalist later published an article and a book containing statements attributed to Williams that allegedly contained classified information.
Court documents also cite text messages Williams allegedly sent afterwards in which she expressed concern about the amount of classified information in the published materials and said she could get arrested because of it.
Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
Courtney Williams has been charged with communicating and transmitting classified information.
Court papers say the 40-year-old worked for a special military unit at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and that between 2022 and 2025, Williams had phone calls and text messages with a journalist in which she provided details about tactics, techniques, and procedures used by military operators.
The journalist later published an article and a book containing statements attributed to Williams that allegedly contained classified information.
Court documents also cite text messages Williams allegedly sent afterwards, in which she expressed concern about the amount of classified information in the published materials and said she could get arrested because of it.
Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
In a post online, Trump called Bondi a great American patriot and loyal friend who oversaw what he called a massive crackdown on crime.
But Bondi had come under bipartisan criticism for handling of the files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
She's also been pressed by Trump to aggressively go after the president's perceived political enemies.
And under Bondi's leadership, the Justice Department has investigated and even prosecuted some of Trump's critics.
But those cases have foundered in court or before grand juries.
Now, Bondi is out, and Trump says Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, a former personal lawyer for Trump,
will take over leading the department for now on an acting basis.
Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
It's a wild guess, but there is some science involved in it.