WikiLeaks Documents: World Leaders, Nations React To Cablegate (PHOTOS)

Though WikiLeaks' unprecedented release of U.S. classified documents has proved embarrassing both to U.S. leaders and their foreign counterparts, the diplomatic reaction to "Cablegate" has largely been one of sympathy with the Obama administration.

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other officials scramble with damage control, leaders such as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have shrugged off many of the criticisms. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- who arguably got the harshest assessment when he was compared to Adolf Hitler -- is quoted as saying he failed to see value in the release of the documents.

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After Vladimir Putin was referred to as an "alpha dog" and "Batman" to President Dmitry Medvedev's "Robin," the Russian premier told Larry King that Cablegate was "not a catastrophe," but added he "did not suspect that this would be expressed so arrogantly, with such rudeness and, you know, being so unethically done.”

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After Vladimir Putin was referred to as an "alpha dog" and "Batman" to President Dmitry Medvedev's "Robin," the Russian premier told Larry King that Cablegate was "not a catastrophe," but added he "did not suspect that this would be expressed so arrogantly, with such rudeness and, you know, being so unethically done.”

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[oldetripreal]

05:55 PM on 12/17/2010

The real relation between Nicolas Sarkozy and Silvio Berlusconi­: A true love story

http://old­erime.word­press.com/­2010/11/21­/the-real-­relation-b­etween-nic­olas-sarko­zy-and-sil­vio-berlus­coni-a-tru­e-love-sto­ry/

[rolcb]

07:36 PM on 12/15/2010

Brazil's presidente, Lula, finishing his presidency's 2nd term with more than 80% of aproval, has registered his protest against Julian Assange's arrest and its consequence for freedom of speech in unequivocal terms on the 9th of December.

[vulpecula762mm]

01:46 PM on 12/10/2010

So in other words... no one else gives a F

[jackbutler5555]

10:18 AM on 12/06/2010

I agree with Ahmadinejad that the documents are worthless.  I would also add this kind of information is barely worth acquiring by the United States and certainly of no value to the myriad State Department employees and others -- including PFCs apparently --  who have access to the secret database. 

The U.S. should learn from this:

1.  It should limit the gossip it acquires and disseminates only to that of strategic importance.
2.  It should limit the number of people with access to it on a strict need-to-know basis.
3.  It should assess the actual damage done by the leaks and take corrective action.  If an ambassador 's cables have limited his/her ability to be effective in nis post, he should be moved.
4.  It should communicate its revised protocol to its allies to assure them that this will not take place again.

I take note that these are State Department cables.  The CIA cables seem not to have been compromised.  If that's the case, the State Department should learn from the CIA processes.

[guveqzero]

09:35 AM on 12/06/2010

Perhaps they fear that their petty behavior exposed creates the wrong image. That this loss of image exposes the simplicity of our system of government to world criticism. Or even worse, exposes our system to a loss of confidence by US citizens. Whatever the reason, it's all pretty silly so far. When lives are being destroyed for an image, you know something is desparately wrong.

[darkmark]

12:12 PM on 12/05/2010

wikileaks no longer available via the dns. put the ip address in the url window at the top of your
browser:

88.80.13.160

and go to wikileaks.org

[JJovana]

01:29 PM on 12/15/2010

THanks.

[leftLibertarian]

08:32 AM on 12/05/2010

In da cable she said my j.unk was tiny but there was shrinkage from my swim!

[Faxus]

07:33 AM on 12/05/2010

Good grief! Who the f**k are you people? Russians?

[SPQR1775]

02:36 AM on 12/05/2010

If al these leaders are on the same path, then we are surely been lead astray, even Iran agree, because now they have the right to do the same thing in their country and the US can't in the future call them out. I love it! Irony!!!

[abouttime]

12:36 AM on 12/05/2010

I hope some of the readers of this article study the myriad of cables exposing out right lies, fraud, bribery and threats of the United States towards the countries mentioned here, but also with countless others in what is called "the Third World" and see how their citizens react to their governments being held under the thumb of US military and corporate domination. What I see from these cables is US Imperial posturing and extortion.

[Steelsil]

05:04 PM on 12/05/2010

What I see is pretty much nothing that anyone who reads the didn't know already.  The howling must be worrying about the upcoming release of info about a big bank.  I don't expect to be surprised by that, either.  As for the US pulling strings, what I see is the US getting ripped off in its attempts to bribe, not pulling strings.

[Steve Rockett]

12:13 AM on 12/05/2010

I think it is funny that they are called leaks. I never liked the vegetable myself.

[Steve Rockett]

12:00 AM on 12/05/2010

I am sure that private assessments of American leaders is far harsher than anything revealed so far. What's the big deal?

[InfinteShibumi]

03:23 PM on 12/04/2010

Must be difficult being the president of Yemen these days...

[Jennfizzer]

02:57 PM on 12/04/2010

WIKILEAKS..."AMERICA'S CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST!" Rev. Jeremiah Wright

[missouriwatcher]

01:05 PM on 12/04/2010

Such a farce.  Of course EVERYONE of these has spies, so the released info was far from being news; also since it tended to show candid opinions, no one but Rip Van Winkle would have been truly "surprised" by what was said.  The sad thing is that most, if not all, governments (ours included, no doubt) wanted most of all to keep the info from their own citizens.