New York Times' Julian Assange Profile Is 'Slimy' And Subservient To Pentagon, Says Glenn Greenwald

First Posted: 12/27/10 05:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:10 PM ET

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Salon:

What Burns did to Julian Assange is most certainly not a "standard journalistic endeavor" for The New York Times. If anyone doubts that, please show me any article that paper has published which trashed the mental health, psyche and personality of a high-ranking American political or military official -- a Senator or a General or a President or a cabinet secretary or even a prominent lobbyist -- based on quotes from disgruntled associates of theirs. That is not done, and it never would be.

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