‘What Evil Lurks In The Hearts Of Men’ To Cause A Betrayal Of Country?
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The rescued weapons officer in Iran very narrowly missed an alternative and tragic ending.
A popular early radio (1930–1954) crime-fighting program, “The Shadow,” began with a distinctive narrator’s voice uttering an iconic opening line, “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!”
In the aftermath of the arrest of a former US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) civilian employee, Courtney Williams, 40, for an act of betrayal against her country, we can only wonder what evil lurked within her heart.
To become a SOCOM contractor, Williams took an oath of secrecy for life. It was a condition she had to accept before being given access to a range of classified information. There was nothing complex about the arrangement. Williams simply agreed never to say anything about what she learned from being granted access to classified files and personnel and, in exchange, the government would allow her to learn whatever she did while undertaking her specific project requirement.
Between 2010 and 2016, Williams held a top-secret clearance and worked on providing support for elite special operations forces, specifically a “special military unit”—i.e., Delta Force. Under the SOCOM umbrella, she was an operational support technician responsible for “Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures” (TTPs) that were used both in preparation for and during sensitive missions. The work she generated was to support warfighters and, as such, was not only classified as secret, but also as too sensitive to be shared with any foreign country.
Clearly, the last person SOCOM wanted Williams feeding TTP details to was a member of the media. However, between 2022 and 2025 that is exactly what she did, giving them to journalist Seth Harp who was writing a book. The same day the book was published—August 12, 2025—Harp also published an article for Politico magazine promoting it, and letting the TTP cat out of the bag.
An investigation was launched that reviewed over 180 messages and ten hours of phone calls between Harp and Williams, leading to the latter being charged with the unauthorized transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act. Willliams was arrested on April 7, 2026.
full story at https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/what_evil_lurks_in_the_hearts_of_men_to_cause_a_betrayal_of_country.html