“In no way did I ‘doxx’ the officer,” Harp wrote in his Jan. 5 statement posted to social media. “I did not post any personally identifying information about him, such as his birthday, social security number, home address, phone number, email address, the names of his family members, or pictures of his house.”

However, the bio Harp posted to X stated the first name of the commander’s wife.

“Nothing about this should distract from the larger Issue: Delta Force, acting on President Trump’s unlawful orders … invaded Venezuela, killed scores of Venezuelans who posed no threat to the United States, and kidnapped the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, as well as his wife,” Harp added in his statement.

“The idea of a reporter ‘leaking classified intel’ is a contradiction in terms,” Harp told WaPo on Thursday. “The First Amendment and ironclad Supreme Court precedent permit journalists to publish classified documents. We don’t work for the government and it’s our job to expose secrets, not protect them for the convenience of high-ranking officials.”

“It’s not ‘doxing’ to point out which high-ranking military officials are involved in breaking news events. That’s information that the public has a right to know,” he added.

In a Jan. 3 X post, Harp referred to Delta Force, an elite special operations force of the Army, as “an organization filled with cokeheads and pervaded by drug trafficking.”

Harp served in the Iraq War as a U.S. Army Reservist and was assistant attorney general in Texas prior to pursuing a journalism career, according to his biography on left-wing think tank New America’s website.

Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, the chair of the Oversight Committee, did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.