'What a Surprise' File: Latest Classified Leaker to Get Busted Is Just AWFL

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We have been cataloging the rapid disintegration of the state of the average Affluent White Female Leftist (AWFL) mind for some time here. While always a self-righteously obnoxious presence in society - there has always been that woman in a neighborhood no one could stand, and tolerating her presence for politeness sake was considered a mark in your parents' favor for how you were raised. 

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Latent genes carrying these less-than-desirable bossy and neurotic traits had been normally suppressed by similar societal pressures, as the behavior would have made the women social pariahs in short order had they indulged them.

Self-indulgence did not use to be considered a virtue.

That is, until the strictures that were inanely, artificially, and cruelly forced on everyone as the COVID hysteria blossomed, unleashing the phenomenon known as 'The Karen.'

Before you knew it, you were meeting these self-appointed guardians of 'The #Rulez' in every grocery aisle you inadvertently wandered down, intent on finding an item, but contrary to the flow of the recently stickered yellow footprints. Inevitably, just as you declared victory on the second shelf from the bottom, a censurious female would be glaring at you over the top of her face diaper from precisely six feet away, waiting for her chance to make eye contact and shriek to the world she had identified a lane traffic transgressor. 

SHUN THE GREEN T SHIRTED MALE IN AISLE FIVE BY THE STORE BRAND IMPORTED OLIVES SHAME SHAME AND FOREVER SHAME!!!!!

COVID mercifully died away. Karens did not.

They found social media, took up new causes, and engendered a movement that celebrated their very Karenness - the anti-social behavior no one would ever previously tolerate had now been liberated, weaponized, and society would be forced to comply.

AWFLs were birthed.

As there have been no limits set on their collective psychosis for years now, they have ratcheted up the insanity level to peg the loon meter. No statement is too insane or dangerous, no act of resistance or defiance is too outlandish or unforgivable if an AWFL has the #Feelz for it.

Questioning an AWFL over such, worse, rebuking one sternly for the lies or hypocrisy within their spew, will earn a shrieking harpy hissy fit of such unrestrained hate and bile as to singe the very nosehairs from one's nostrils.

They live in their own world, where reality, reasoning, and civilized behavior have no place. It's not a #MeToo environment. It's a completely self-absorbed #MeMeMe. 

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Cluster B psychopathology:

Cluster B personality disorders (PDs) are mental health conditions characterized by dramatic, overly emotional, or erratic behaviors, intense interpersonal instability, and poor impulse control. The four typesโ€”Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic PDsโ€”often feature, to varying degrees, manipulation, high volatility, and challenges with emotional regulation.

Four Key Cluster B Disorders

  • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Marked by intense fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, erratic moods, and impulsive actions (e.g., self-harm).
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD): Defined by a disregard for the rights, safety, and feelings of others, often involving deceit, manipulation, and lack of remorse.
  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD): Characterized by a long-term pattern of grandiosity, an overwhelming need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.
  • Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD): Involves consistent attention-seeking behaviors, dramatic emotional displays, and high suggestibility.

AWFLs don't want to discuss a difference of opinion with you. They want you punished or dead and make no bones about it.

If officials/law enforcement are acting in an official capacity while enforcing a legal policy they do not ascribe to, they will be as in-your-face, obnoxiously theatrical as possible while they are actively trying to subvert and impede whatever the action is.

Renee Good and her vile wife in Minneapolis are the perfect example of entitled, out-of-control AWFLs.

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They taunted the officers while impeding law enforcement, and Good arrogantly made what turned out to be a fatal misjudgment of how far she could push an issue, all while being goaded on by her partner in mayhem.

 That holds true whether you're a policeman in Poughkeepsie or a soldier in Kuwait.

The enemies you face aren't always foreign, although their twisted mindset is.

Often, they're right here at home and might even be a fellow veteran. All it takes is that AWFL gene to kick in.

One such arrest was announced by FBI director Kash Patel last night. 

An Army veteran, forty years old, was arrested for leaking classified information to a journalist over three years' time.

A former Fort Bragg employee with top-secret clearance is accused of leaking classified military tactics to a journalist, then admitting to her mother that she could be arrested for exposing sensitive operations, according to a federal complaint.

Courtney P. Williams, 40, an Army veteran assigned to a Special Military Unit (SMU) at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday and charged with unlawfully transmitting national defense information, including classified tactics used in covert missions, to an investigative reporter over a period spanning several years, federal prosecutors allege.

According to the complaint, Williams held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance and had direct access to highly sensitive operational details, including tactics, techniques and procedures โ€” commonly known as TTPs โ€” used by elite military units.

Williams allegedly violated 18 U.S.C. ยง 793(d), the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a news release Wednesday.

Investigators allege that between 2022 and 2025, Williams communicated extensively with a journalist, including phone calls lasting hundreds of minutes and roughly 180 text messages, while also sending documents and materials that were later published in an article and book identifying her as the source.

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What the absolute hell.

According to the article, this woman knew what she had done but had second thoughts only after the book was published, and she could read the fruits of her betrayal.

OOPS

...Evidence outlined in the complaint includes messages indicating Williams mailed a thumb drive containing materials to the journalist, as well as files saved on her computer labeled "Batch 1 for Reporter" and similar titles, suggesting an organized effort to provide information.

On the day the article and book were published, Williams allegedly texted the journalist expressing concern about the scope of the disclosure, writing that she was troubled by "the amount of classified information being disclosed" and that it felt like "an entire TTP was sent out in my name."

In a separate conversation with her mother, Williams allegedly acknowledged the legal risk more directly.

"I might actually get arrested, and I donโ€™t even get a free copy of the book," she wrote, adding the legal basis as "for disclosing classified information."

The author is characterizing his leaker source as a 'brave whistleblower.'  Of course, he is. 

Wait until the government yanks every copy of that tome back for the classified info in it.

Who would have ever guessed that working with Delta Force and SOCOM would be a little spicier than a desk in D.C.? Surely an 'Army veteran' would have some clue and some experience dealing with testosterone and 'soldiers.' 

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And the only way this creature could make herself whole was to leak everything to some guy on the outside? And not just her own personal beef with the command, which may or may not have been problems she created or exaggerated, but she had to throw in tactical information that the operators use, too? How dare a former soldier endanger her fellow American soldiers! Then again, an AWFL would feel entitled to.

Spare me your drama queen sob story, girlfriend. Williams could have simply quit her job at any point during those years and filed a grievance.

Now, I believe this arrest is being confused by news agencies with another leaker hunt that's currently underway. I do not believe they are related, judging by the dates this woman is being charged for.

When the F-15 was hit over Iran last week, that was nearly all anyone knew. That we'd had a bird go down in hostile territory, but mercifully, the pilot had already been rescued.

Someone tipped the press off that there was still one more crew member out there in the desert before our guys had a chance to go find him. That started the mad, desperate dash to save the stranded American's life as the now alerted Iranians swung into action to find him first.

President Trump was incandescent with rage over the betrayal.

President Donald Trump said Monday that a โ€œsick personโ€ leaked information about the downed U.S. fighter jet to media outlets and threatened jail time for reporters if they donโ€™t reveal the leakerโ€™s identity.

Trump said the U.S. mission to rescue one of the American airmen who went down in Iran was placed โ€œat great riskโ€ because of the leak and the ensuing media reports. The Iranian regime placed a bounty on the missing U.S. F-15 fighter weapons systems officer, who was forced to hide in a mountain crevice for nearly two days as armed Iranians searched for the American.

โ€œWeโ€™re looking very hard to find that leaker,โ€ Trump told reporters in the White House briefing room, adding, โ€œWhoever it was, we think weโ€™ll be able to find it out because weโ€™re going to go to the media company that released it and weโ€™re going to say, โ€˜National security, give it up or go to jail.'โ€

โ€œSome things you canโ€™t do because when they did that, all of a sudden, the entire country of Iran knew that there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land that was fighting for his life,โ€ Trump said. โ€œAnd it also made it much more difficult for the pilots and for the people going in to search for him.โ€

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Whoever tipped off that first reporter endangered not only the life of that Weapons System Officer, but every American who would be going in to retrieve him from that point forward.

It was absolutely unconscionable for the leak and the news agencies that ran with it.

...Trump did not say to which outlet the administration believes the leaker sent the sensitive information. CBS News, The New York Times and CNN were among the first outlets to report that one of the two U.S. pilots was rescued while a search and rescue operation had begun for the missing pilot. CBS News cited โ€œtwo U.S. officialsโ€ in its report on the missing airman. The New York Times cited โ€œU.S. and Israeliโ€ officials, and CNN cited three โ€œU.S. sourcesโ€ in its initial report on the missing pilot.

Until I hear that Courtney Williams from the Ft Bragg case is being specifically charged with the F-15 leak, I am going on the assumption that they are still on the hunt for that leaker, which to my mind is a far more egregious case because of its immediacy.

Lives hung in the balance because of that leak to a willing and malevolent media - AMERICAN lives.

And I'm sorry. That still means something to the rest of us, for all the hurt #feelingz and psychotic #MeMeMe spinning in the ether around us.

American lives and security take precedence over everything.

If some snowflake can't deal with that, quit.

You don't get to be heroes in your own movie.

Beege ADDS: I've got a link here to the Politico story that Seth Harp wrote featuring Courtney Williams. Holy smokes. 

It also answers a question: Williams was medically retired from her government job in 2018, which means the timeframe for the information she's been charged with passing is after her employment. She hasn't worked at Fort Bragg in over eight years.

So no. I would venture the chances of her being the F-15 leaker are zilch, going by that. The question now is, did she take thumb drives, etc, with classified material with her when she left amidst all the brouhaha over the sexual harassment claims, or has someone in the command been feeding her the info afterward?

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In case you're wondering why the 'journalist/author's' name sounds vaguely familiar, Seth Harp, he's pretty infamous himself, besides being a big Tucker buddy and Rolling Stone contributing editor.

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Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | April 08, 2026
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