Well this is an interesting turn of events.
Journalists who have dealt with Assange describe him as a man who skips around like a child, doesn’t always wash and is sensitive and volatile.Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, reveals that one reporter told him that Assange’s behaviour had been very strange.
‘He was alert but dishevelled, like a bag lady walking in off the street, wearing a dingy, light-coloured sport coat and cargo pants, dirty white shirt, beat-up sneakers and filthy white socks that collapsed around his ankles,’ he wrote.
‘He smelled as if he hadn’t bathed for days.’
Mr Assange is described as extremely intelligent and well educated – but is also branded arrogant and thin-skinned.
Mr Keller wrote that the erratic WikiLeaks boss stunned reporters when he began skipping after a formal meal, the Independent on Sunday reported.
He explained: ‘One night, when they were all walking down the street after dinner, Assange suddenly started skipping ahead of the group… (two journalists) stared, speechless.
‘Then just as suddenly, Assange stopped, got back in step with them and returned to the conversation he had interrupted.’
Relations with the 39-year-old became rocky at times – and three journalists believe they had their own computers hacked into after a falling out.
Mr Assange’s dealings with the New York Times became tense after they published the Iraq War Diaries.
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