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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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(Score: 5, Insightful) by arslan on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:45AM
You're missing the other point. Just by having this "reward" campaign, the publicity it generates is already potentially worth it to wikileaks.
Also, like buying the lotto, the probability might be very small, but if you don't buy the chances are nil. For all we know, the extra publicity and awareness of this could set in motion a series of events that lead to another Snowden scenario much later on.
When you're fighting from the underdog position, you take every single opportunity. I like their attitude.