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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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The worst part of valor is indiscretion.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday June 04 2015, @05:45PM
While I agree that secret treaties are bad, and I agree that treaties negotiated in secret are bad, they aren't the same thing. A secret treaty remains secret after it's adopted, just as secret courts remain secret even while deciding on cases. And both exist in the US, despite both being unconstitutional (my interpretation).
Because the TPP contents are unknown, we can't know that it's intended to become a secret treaty. Most people aren't even worried about that aspect of it. What they're worried about is the portions of it that will become publicly known after it's adopted, such as destruction of environmental regulations.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.