Um, the leaks show the US government strongly pressuring european governments not to prosecute CIA officers who kidnapped and tortured completely innocent european citizens. We've suspected that all along, but now we have evidence that:

- The CIA kidnapped innocent people in Europe

- The CIA tortured those people

- The CIA abandoned them

- The US government will not tolerate even a symbolic condemnation of this behavior

And you think that looks pretty good? What?

there is a "lack of any significant difference between what the U.S. government says publicly and what these things show privately"

I must have missed the press conference where Sec Gates publicly announced that the US government kidnaps innocent people from our allies and tortures them and then refuses to even admit it let alone make restitution. In which press conference did the government publicly admit that? Because if you can't think of any, that suggests Sec Gates is a liar.