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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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WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document
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It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:19AM
What could they possibly do to him?
They *could* charge them with espionage and terrorism (look up the definition of terrorism, it is very loosely defined as trying to change the policy of the government - which an action like this would be - and there is no need for any direct violence to be committed, really, look it up, it's a riveting read)
But that's nothing. If they *REALLY* want to hurt the senator, they could do much, much worse: they can make sure the senator does not get re-elected! That is at least 10x as bad.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:37AM
and pedophilia.. more powerful than espionage and terrorism charges.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:31AM
change the policy of the government
Sounds like the job description of a Senator. Good luck trying to get a conviction for that.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.