Behind Bush's Kyoto sellout. (Inside Report).

The Bush administration's unfolding sellout on "global warming" has been covered extensively in these pages. In his July 22nd column, Washington correspondent Robert Novak offers critical details about the role played by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and the Council on Foreign Relations in that sellout.

Asked by Novak if the Bush administration would "un-sign" the UN's Kyoto global warming treaty, a "senior administration official" replied: "We can do that, but we won't do it." "The principal reason," according to Novak, is "quiet but decisive influence by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.... In international treaty questions, she reflects the views of European allies, the State Department bureaucracy and the American foreign policy establishment....Rice is considered susceptible to criticism from European foreign ministries and the Council on Foreign Relations. That's why the Clinton administration's treaties, especially Kyoto, are likely to hang around the Senate indefinitely in wait of the next Democratic president."