WikiLeaks reveals U.S. & EU climate bullying, bribery, espionage.(INSIDE TRACK)

A series of secret U.S. diplomatic cables released by the whistle-blower group WikiLeaks in December shows that the American and European governments used monetary incentives, threats, and even espionage to advance their "climate" agenda at the December 2009 global-warming summit in Copenhagen and beyond.

Only a fraction of the more than 250,000 cables have been released so far, and just a few of those were related to the "climate" negotiations last year. But even what little has come out thus far--analysts are calling it the "tip of the iceberg"--is raising eyebrows and generating more anti-U.S. sentiment around the globe. And the revelations certainly didn't enhance the cause of the global-warming alarmists at last month's climate-change summit in Cancun.

It turns out that, at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency and the American "intelligence" apparatus, the U.S. State Department sent out secret diplomatic cables seeking intelligence on United Nations bosses, foreign officials, and others. News reports claimed such an operation--basically using diplomats with immunity as spies--could be considered a violation of international law.

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The State Department, while conceding that its staff does gather information around the world, was insistent that American diplomats should not be considered spies. But among the information they were collecting was data such as credit card numbers, frequent flyer numbers, telephone records, Internet passwords, biometrics data, "vulnerabilities," and other "biographical" information. It was also looking for dirt on other governments and officials.

In terms of the climate shenanigans revealed in the cables, the U.K. Guardian reported last month: "Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage."

The newspaper described some of the revelations in the diplomatic cables, saying they show "how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial 'Copenhagen accord.'"