Reply #16: Very true, 50% of the embassy workforce are spies. Now going after the head of the U.N.

[mrdmk]

for dirt (made-up or not) will piss-off the peasants of a nation. Not only that, these documents concern present policy that everyone can read. This is a major embarrassment to the U.S. State Department that secret documents are in the news.

Just knowing that governments do this type of crap to each other is one thing, getting caught at it is a sign of incompetence, mistrust and other awkward situations. Just ask Richard Nixon.