The most comprehensive record of what has happened in the Bradley Manning trial so far is being kept fastidiously by Alexa O'Brien, who is completely in the Bradley Manning camp.

The rest of the media is relying on her, so be glad she takes good notes.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Among the charges facing famous leaker Bradley Manning is aiding the enemy, a capital offense.

If the charge sticks, what would it mean?

That every time you leak a national security document to any media that can be accessed over the net from everywhere,

you are indirectly communicating with the enemy.

And 10 years after shock and awe, we reconnect with Iraqis who took foreign journalists where they could never go on their own.

You can see everything is being taken from you and like you're an alien in your country.

I thought, okay, I couldn't do anything as a doctor.

Probably I could do something as a journalist.

That and more coming up.

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