Wikileaks Offers $100,000 Bounty For Asian Trade Pact Pushed By Obama

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

By Krista Hughes | Reuters – 11 hours ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Whistleblower website WikiLeaks offered a $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.

Nine hours after the campaign was launched, WikiLeaks' website was showing $25,835 pledged by more than 100 people.

Read more: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/wikileaks-offers-100-000-bounty-asian-trade-pact-025002514.html

[tridim]

1. It's almost like a game!!!1

[Baitball Blogger]

3. I feel so unprepared for this new phase in our history because

I didn't log time behind a joystick or controller.

[appalachiablue]

2. Very interesting, what could this turn up I wonder.

[tridim]

4. Weasels and shysters (libertarians) with their huge bags of bullshit.

[lostnfound]

5. Ugh.

Bounties : whistleblowing is like prostitution : lovemaking.
Money is corrosive to beauty and nobility.

[christx30]

6. Secrecy is worse. n/t

[OnyxCollie]

9. Get rid of CrimeStoppers, too.

'Cause offering $100 for a tip that leads to an arrest is a horrible thing to do.

[Sunlei]

7. i get the feelinggg this is another fbi sting-net

[Helen Borg]

8. Well played...

There must be some not so rich employee who handled a copy at some point. Perhaps a secretary type...