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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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Nadia Comaneci, simple perfection.
-- '76 Olympics
(Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:20AM
I seem to remember reading that the US senators were allowed to inspect the document under supervision, but that they weren't even allowed to take notes.
Difficult to leak the whole thing under those circumstances. I suspect the guards would notice something as straightforward as recording it all with Google Glass.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:25AM
But what gives those guards authority over a Senator?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:59AM
Brute force.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by CirclesInSand on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:25AM
That's power, not authority.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @11:39AM
Any 'authority' ultimately devolves to who can bring the most brute force to bear. Whether it's the Police, one's private army, or your nuclear arsenal down the back by the cow shed, brute force is the basis for any claim to authority, political clout or even religious morality du jour.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:03AM
I would like to know how the executive branch thinks it can neuter a co-equal branch of government like this and get away with it. Why isn't Congress voting to impeach this jackass this moment? They certainly don't like him, he's not from their party, so why on God's green Earth aren't they using this to get rid of him? I don't like them, either, but this kind of imperiousness crosses the line.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:02AM
> I would like to know how the executive branch thinks it can neuter a co-equal branch of government like this and get away with it.
Such neutering is the entire point of the party system. It puts the parties above the branches of government.
> Why isn't Congress voting to impeach this jackass this moment?
Because the GOP loves the TPP 100x more than the democratic party does [vox.com] and his own party wouldn't even consider impeaching him for this (see previous sentence).
(Score: 3, Informative) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:20PM
I seem to remember reading that the US senators were allowed to inspect the document under supervision, but that they weren't even allowed to take notes.
Difficult to leak the whole thing under those circumstances. I suspect the guards would notice something as straightforward as recording it all with Google Glass.
Senator Barbara Boxer complained about this. She was told to turn over all her electronics before she could enter the room with the document and while she was told she could take notes, she could not take them with her, she had to turn them over to the guard to be kept in a "file". She also questioned why it was secret, there being nothing she saw affecting national security in it.