WikiLeaks Is Raising $100,000 Reward to Uncover the Trans-Pacific Partnership David Francis - Foreign Policy
go to original June 3, 2015

WikiLeaks Takes Aim at the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TheWikiLeaksChannel)

The Obama administration insists the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership — potentially the largest trade deal in U.S. history — needs to be kept out of the public eye while negotiators hammer out its final details. WikiLeaks has joined an unlikely alliance of critics who disagree.

The transparency group, which has published three chapters of the draft deal in recent years, is offering a $100,000 “bounty” for the rest of it. The crowd-funded effort is the first time the organization and its leader, Julian Assange, have offered the public a cash reward to uncover what the American government wants kept secret. It’s also a departure from the past, when the organization released documents on its own.

“The transparency clock has run out on the TPP. No more secrecy. No more excuses. Let’s open the TPP once and for all,” Assange said in a statement Tuesday morning. He’s taken refuge in Ecuador’s embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden, where authorities want him to answer questions about sexual assault allegations.

The payoff represents the organization’s most bold foray into international finance. It’s best known for releasing secret U.S. diplomatic cables and American military information, and for championing NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

Pledge today! Go to wikileaks.org/tpp-reward | Tell your freinds #LeakTPP

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