In Washington, the U.S. Justice Department filed a new 18-count indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

New charges pose a clear threat to the First Amendment. The New York Times lawyer in the Pentagon Papers case says he's feeling deja vu all over again.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

The president is considering pardons for U.S. military personnel accused of horrific war crimes.

Army documents claim that during a CIA job interview, the former Green Beret admitted killing

a suspected Afghan bomb maker.

It's been a while since the last presidential action of this kind.

And that would have been President Nixon in 1973,

pardoning Lieutenant William Cali,

who was the officer in charge of the soldiers who committed the Milai massacres.

The surprising history of war crime.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is off this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

In Washington, the U.S. Justice Department filed a new 18-count

indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. It accuses him of publishing thousands of

secret documents and endangering people who help U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A month ago, when WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was indicted for conspiring to assist

Leaker Chelsea Manning in the theft of government secrets, some saw the charge as but the

first shoe to drop.

They were right.

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