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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   
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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• $100,000 $100,000 (Score: 2) by Anne Nonymous on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:00AM

  by Anne Nonymous (712) on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:00AM (#191853)

  Is the $100,000 in today's dollars, or 2045 when you get out of prison?

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• Re:$100,000 (Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:31AM

  by looorg (578) on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:31AM (#191864)

  It doesn't say. Sending someone a transfer of 100k is also like a red flag for the IRS (or your local version). Perhaps you get it in bitcoins.

  https://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-issues-call-for-100-000.html [wikileaks.org]
  https://wikileaks.org/pledge/ [wikileaks.org]
  https://wikileaks.org/pledge/#submit [wikileaks.org]

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• Re:$100,000 Re:$100,000 (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:23AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:23AM (#191873)

  It's in Z$ [wikipedia.org]

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  • Re:$100,000 (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @07:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @07:22AM (#191949)

    So you didn't bother to read the summary either.

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