Journalist Glenn Greenwald ripped The New York Times over a story he claimed was straight-up propaganda fed to it through U.S. intelligence agencies as a means of shaming members of Congress into continuing unwavering and unlimited support for Ukraine as it continues to battle an invading Russia.

Greenwald made his remarks via his “System Update” podcast on Thursday, a portion of which was posted online.

“Here’s an article from the New York Times, and you’re going to see so many of these articles. We’ve already seen so many of them, they are going to come one after the next. This is a particularly vivid one that I think is really worth looking at because it is just so flagrant, in terms of how it functions, in terms of the manipulative and deceitful nature of what this instrument is,” he said to begin the segment.

“Here’s the New York Times, look at this headline: Putin’s Next Target: U.S. Support For Ukraine, Officials Say,” he added.

“So right away, let’s just observe the fact that the entire article is based on this phrase, ‘Officials Say.’ So what that means is you have people inside the U.S. government, who work in the White House, the Pentagon, the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI — ‘officials’ — and they’re saying something. What are they saying? ‘Putin’s next target is U.S. support for Ukraine.’ That the Kremlin is going to start targeting America with Russian disinformation in order to erode support for the war in Ukraine,” the investigative journalist continued.

“And the entire article, newspapers are supposed to report events in the world, this is not an event in the world. This is a message that the New York Times was dispatched to deliver that came from U.S. ‘Officials,'” he said, adding:

So the headline itself, the only real verb here, is “Say.” U.S. “Officials Say.” That’s the only thing that has happened. CIA or FBI or national security officials came and told the New York Times something and then the New York Times is telling you what they want you to know. That’s it. That’s the whole article.

If you go and look — here in the subheadline as well, “Russian spy agencies and new technologies could be used to push conspiracy theories, U.S. officials say.”

Even in the subheadline, you see exactly the same formulation, because this is what the New York Times exists to do. Imagine if you had U.S. state media that was not like the New York Times or CNN, but state media that admitted it was state media and that it was there to be the propaganda arm of the government. What state media would do is go on TV every day, or into the pages of their newspapers every day, and say: “The government today proclaims the following, the government today announces this, the government today has decreed that they want you to know the following.” That’s what the New York Times is. That’s what the New York Times does.

“It’s all about what U.S. officials want you to believe. And what they want you to believe is that if you’re feeling as though you’re starting to question the war in Ukraine, as most Americans are, it is only because you’re a victim of Russian disinformation,” Greenwald added, appearing to reference a standard intelligence community psychological operation aimed (illegally) at a domestic audience.

“And we face a danger as a country, namely that Putin is targeting, he’s ‘targeting’ our country with this scary thing called Russian disinformation. And as a result, you need your government to protect you from that because he’s pushing conspiracy theories in order to manipulate public opinion. How do you get protected from Russian disinformation? You get the government to censor on your behalf. To keep you safe from it. That’s what all of this is about,” he said.

WATCH:

🚨🚨WATCH: The @NYTimes—based on claims from anonymous officials—warns Americans that Putin's next disinformation campaign will target U.S. Support for Ukraine.

This "report" is nothing more than CIA propaganda laundered through their news page. pic.twitter.com/2LVJVyb7Tp

— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) October 5, 2023