The New York Times has posted its piece on the diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks.

For our Spanish speaking readers, El Pais has posted its package on the leaked documents.

The Guardian write up of the State Department cables has also been posted. In its usual understated style, the paper declares that the “United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis” by Wikileaks.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs just issued the following statement, after the publication of the cables began: Read More

The New York Times has a lengthy editor’s note explaining its decision to publish the Wikileaks cables. It reads in part: Read More

The top 5 revelations from the Wikileaks’ diplomatic cables release — so far.

Six NATO members — nationalities not yet revealed — have been killed on a training mission in Afghanistan by a gunman wearing an Afghan border police uniform in what the AP reports looks like another case of Afghan trainees turning on their NATO trainers.

Focus on the Family steps in to rescue “The Day of Truth” — the annual event where religious conservatives encourage students to “counter the promotion of homosexual behavior” — with a new sponsorship and re-brands it “The Day of Dialogue.”

Interesting new details from the AP on the long hunt for Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME): I’d sure be more likely to vote for the START treaty if the former Presidents Bush came out publicly for it.

Obama to announce later this morning a pay freeze for all federal workers.

A pay freeze for federal workers is the sort of gimmicky deficit reduction measure that you could see using as a bargaining chip in broader negotiations over how to best reduce the deficit. But as a standalone, unilateral concession? It doesn’t do much to actually reduce the deficit and it’s a shot at a core part of the Democratic base, so why concede it right off the bat?

The DLC-esque Third Way offers its explanation: “The President’s announcement today recognizes that we need to take serious action to get the deficit under control, and that we need to take a ‘government goes first’ approach to build public trust and prepare for the sacrifices we’ll need to put our fiscal house in order.”

“Government goes first” usually means “Democrats go first” in these negotiations. Republicans then use that concession to redefine the “middle” as further to the right — at which point Democrats concede again and the whole cycle repeats itself.

We’re tracking the developments on the Wikileaks story — including the ongoing revelations as documents are reviewed — at TPM’s Wikileaks Wire.