(CNN) -- The confidential U.S. embassy cables posted online by the website WikiLeaks simply show "diplomats doing the work of diplomacy," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday.
Clinton said she was not making light of the leaked documents, which reveal secret communications from U.S. diplomats around the world and have caused embarrassment for the United States and others.
"Everybody is concerned," she told reporters aboard her plane as it departed Bahrain, where she spoke at a conference. "Everybody has a right to have us talk to them, and have any questions that they have answered, but at the end of the day -- as a couple of analysts and writers are now writing -- what you see are diplomats doing the work of diplomacy".
The secretary made the comments off-camera but on the record. CNN
