From WNYKRC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.

I'm Bob Carfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

This week in the case of the United States versus John Walker Lind,

a.k.a. the American Taliban, the defendant was indicted on 10 counts and denied bail.

The government drew on three sources to make its case against Lynn's release, information gleaned by the FBI and the CIA,

emails Lind wrote to his mother, and a CNN interview and news report produced by reporter Robert Pelton,

who spoke with Lind in an Afghanistan hospital.

The government's original complaint quotes extensively from the CNN broadcast. Peltin has

seen the government's complaint and objects to the way his narration was used to make its case.

Robert Peltin, welcome to OTM. Thank you. So then, what's your complaint? We heard the report,

we saw the government's complaint, and the facts, as you stated them on CNN, seemed to jive perfectly.

Yeah, the only catch here is that when you commit a crime, you would hope that a federal investigative agency would have proof of the actual crime, not use sort of secondhand or casual conversations by people.

Well, here is what the complaint says.

In reference to your broadcast, it says in the same broadcast,

the correspondent who conducted the interview went on to say that Walker had said

that he is a member of Ansar, who are the Arabic-speaking fighters who are funded and supported by bin Laden.

He did tell you he was a member of Ansar, right?

Right, but Ansar is actually any group that cannot speak the language of the Taliban.

They go into the foreign camps.

So he didn't tell you that this is a group of Arabic-speaking fighters who are funded and supported by bin Laden.

Well, he said he was a member of Ants, but I explained it more fully because I'm very conversant with the camps and the people that go through them.

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