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mr. assange. >> lisa myers here in the studio to start us off tonight. lisa, thanks. >>> as we mentioned, as all of this plays out around the globe, the secret documents keep tumbling out of wikileaks onto the web and newspaper front pages. the diplomatic cables revealed just today are all about afghanistan, a nation where the u.s. is in year nine of a costly war. afghanistan is depicted as a cess pool of corruption and everything is for sale, and its leader, hamid karzai, as unstable and erratic. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has been going through this latest round of documents. with us again from the washington newsroom, andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. we knew the karzai regime was bad, but these cables show just how corrupt u.s. officials believe it really is. according to one cable cited by "the new york times" tonight, after afghanistan's new cabinet took office last january, the u.s. embassy wrote home that the agriculture minister appears to be the only minister that was confirmed about whom no al