How the New York Times Forced Julian Assange to Give Up Guantanamo Bay Files
Michael Calderone at Huffington Post wrote yesterday about the scramble to publish WikiLeaks Guantanamo Bay documents. The curious aspect to the whole tale is that five months had passed since a source told Reuters that Julian Assange had “personal files of every prisoner in GITMO” and the documents still hadn’t emerged.
The documents were finally published when the New York Times obtained them, and decided to share them with NPR and Guardian. But Times executive editor Bill Keller told The Huffington Post that, “WikiLeaks is not our source.
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