kazak women about the damage caused by the great leak of 2010 -- >> we consider it regrettable that information that was meant to be confidential has been made public. >> reporter: she did not say that it's just plain embarrassing, that now many of the leaders that she has to meet and greet and schmooze and cajole and flatter and lecture and persuade and reassure -- and this is just a sampling of the past six months -- that many of them now know what was said about them in those cables. you do not want to imagine the awkwardness. actually, let's imagine it. it's dinner with secretary clinton as hostess and a table full of guests whose name cards include, in metaphorical invisible ink, comments made about them by invisible u.s. diplomats. so open some wine for nicolas sarkozy. president of france, yes. also, according to a cable from the paris embassy, thin-skinned and authoritarian. you probably want to avoid sitting next to germany's angela