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: 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.