Wikileaks: another document dump.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US President Barack Obama: Never before in history has a superpower lost control of such vast amounts of such sensitive information. (a quote from Spiegel Online)

What was revealed

This release shows a close partnership between Saudi Arabia and our country with regard to the prosecution of the war on terror.

It reveals a willingness on the part of Yemen leaders to claim credit for US bombings on terrorist locations within that country.

We learn that the Arab world was/is opposed to the Iranian nuclear advances of recent months and even favored the bombing of its nuclear plants.

We now know that Obama and company had a low opinion of the Germany Chancellery, Angela Merkel. She resisted Obama's efforts to get Europe to spend more money in the battle against fiscal collapse.

Russia and the Italian leaders have a much closer relationship than anyone had imagined.

Washington was making a move against the Pakistanian's nuclear systems.

Hardly a secret, the emails reveal an even harsher point of view about the State Department's opinion of the Kenyan government. If negotiations were being entertained between the two countries, that will be put on hold because of Wikileaks disastrous and continuing revelations.

There is more on the corruption of the Afghan leadership, raising questions as to what it is that we are accomplishing in that country. Understand that the Administration was fully aware of the degree of corruption exposed in the Wikileaks document dump.

Obama is scheduled to make a statement regarding this problem this morning . . . . . . the first formal statement after 7 months of "leakage." The fact that we are just now hearing from the Commander is evidence of the notion that Obama simply does not understand the critical nature of this exposure.

Update and correction: apparently Obama will not address the Wkileaks issue nor will he take questions. His morning appearance will deal with the two-year pay freeze of Federal employees and nothing more. More competence ?

Suffice it to say that this is an unmitigated disaster. . . . . emphasis on "unmitigated." New York Representative, Peter King, has told reporters that American lives have been put at risk, because of Wikileaks attack on this nation.

Understand that illegal activity on the part of our representatives , diplomatic or military, is not the primary question. Nations need to have "freedom of expression" when it comes to the sharing of diplomatic strategies and opinions. That much need circumstance has been taken way, if for only a period of time.

Currently we are being told that the source of all this material is a lone American soldier being held on related charges.

The damage to our foreign policy efforts will be repaired. The question remains as to the complicity of the Obama Administration in this matter. Has the Administration's internal agency policies added to the leaks? Midknight Review is not sure that anyone is asking this question. Understand, the Administration is said to have made these documents available to thousands of intelligent agency personnel as a matter of course. The question of the day is this: how does a low level soldier get his hands on so much secret and sensitive information and what is the effect of the Administration's "open door" policies when it comes to the handling and review of secret documents ?

There is much to be learned about what lead to this debacle. We will wait for more reliable information before reporting further on this matter.