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posted by takyon on Wednesday June 03 2015, @11:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the leak-hunter dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by CirclesInSand on Friday June 05 2015, @06:47AM

    by CirclesInSand (2899) on Friday June 05 2015, @06:47AM (#192392)

    More to the point, this isn't even a defense treaty, where secrecy at least has some sort of thin veneer of making sense. It's a trade treaty. We citizens are going to be affected by it a lot more directly. And yet we can't be told what it is?

    Trade treaties are effectively acts of war. They are the modern equivalent to a siege. Rather than surrounding a castle or town and cutting off supplies, modern trade treaties surround countries economically and attempt to cut off trade.

    So it's not surprising to me at least that trade negotiations would be secret. They are arguing over whose citizens to attempt to starve to death. Cuba has been on the list for a while. The siege is what they are using to attempt to make Iran negotiate and follow through on a radioactive weapons deal.

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