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: 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.