One of the lessons I’ve learned during my career in Washington is that the liberal media loves a “leak.” They will pounce on anything they can get their hands on, even if it means revealing classified military documents. We saw this most recently when the Pentagon leaked General Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan assessment. Yet, Big Media has tried to ignore “Climategate,” arguably one of the biggest scientific and political cover-ups of all time.

“Climategate” has all the makings of a news story that the liberal media would typically love: destructive emails, deception and outright fraud. Despite all of this, you would be hard-pressed to hear about the story on a major news outlet. As more information is released, Al Gore and his radical environmentalist cronies look even worse.

Professor Mike Hulme, who worked at the University of East Anglia, where the leaked e-mails originated, said, “The attitudes revealed in the e-mails do not look good. The tribalism that some of the leaked e-mails display is something more usually associated with social organization within primitive cultures; it is not attractive when we find it at work inside science.”

But Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chairwoman the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, couldn’t care less about the information released in “Climategate.” Instead of asking for a hearing on the suspect science, Boxer is intent on investigating how the e-mails were acquired. Boxer said yesterday, “You call it ‘Climategate,’ I call it ‘E-mail-theft-gate…. Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated.”

One likely outcome is that “Climategate” may derail the liberal push to pass a cap and trade scheme in the Senate. (Boxer is one of cap and trade’s biggest supporters.) These developments could also affect the upcoming Copenhagen conference on climate change. Obama and other world leaders who worship at the altar of man-made global warning suddenly have a tremendous credibility gap.