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WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document

posted by takyon on Wednesday June 03 2015, @11:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the leak-hunter dept.

n1 writes:

Australian Financial Review reports:

Whistleblower website WikiLeaks offered a [US$100,000] bounty for copies of a Pacific trade pact that is a central plank of President Barack Obama's diplomatic pivot to Asia on Tuesday.

WikiLeaks, which has published leaked chapters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating text before, started a drive to crowdsource money for the reward, just as U.S. unions launched a new push to make the text public.

"The transparency clock has run out on the TPP. No more secrecy. No more excuses. Let's open the TPP once and for all," WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in a statement.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Wednesday June 03 2015, @11:13PM

    by edIII (791) on Wednesday June 03 2015, @11:13PM (#191814)

    IANAL, but I haven't heard Assange ever directly ask for specific data to be leaked, and offer to pay for it to boot. It would seem to me that many governments could construe that as being not only an accomplice, but the ring leader.

    Got to admire that. He's in exile, so yeah, what's he got to lose? Will the US invade a South American country again, but only this time to get an information lord that got too big for his britches? ;)

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @11:55PM

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:51PM

    by Sulla (5173) on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:51PM (#192060) Journal

    I think such an action by the government would bring some significant support to our fringe candidates who have some out in opposition to the trade deal. Warren's opposition and the whole "if Americans knew what was in this, they would not support it" line had some major banks refusing to process democratic campaign donations until she was brought back into line. An overt operation to get Assange would be the worst possible thing, right now they can write him off, but if they grabbed him they would have to either kill him (martyr), give him a trial (who knows what other info he has he can give out), or treat him as an enemy combatant which the anti-establishment on both sides opposes.

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