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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @12:48AM
I would like to think that the MPs, or senators, or whatever you have in your country voting on it would say "created in secret by corporations and select officials?". Rejected.
Why would they reject something that their campaign donors secretly lobby for?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:58AM
Where possible they'll give the >50% of the voters what they want - which is stuff on gay marriage, abortion, marijuana etc.
And give the >50% of the donors what they want - which is TPP and other corporate friendly stuff.
And often these things do not conflict at all.