Boing Boing: A Senator not allowed to take notes on TPP? Stop the secrecy!

  TPP is not only being kept secret to prevent public debate, but also to prevent Congressional debate. U.S. Senate might be voting on the Fast Track bill this afternoon, which will take them a step closer to the TPP. Call your Senator and tell him to Stop Fast Track using THIS tool. Article by Cory Doctorow for Boing Boing We thought it was crazy when Obama's trade threatened Congress with prison if they disclosed anything about the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership.

TPP is not only being kept secret to prevent public debate, but also to prevent Congressional debate. U.S. Senate might be voting on the Fast Track bill this afternoon, which will take them a step closer to the TPP. Call your Senator and tell him to Stop Fast Track using THIS tool.

Article by Cory Doctorow for Boing Boing

We thought it was crazy when Obama's trade threatened Congress with prison if they disclosed anything about the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership.

But it just gets dirtier. Sen Barbara Boxer [D-CA] tried to get a look at the text. First she limited her helpers to staffers with security clearance, because the TPP is Classified ("God knows why... It has nothing to do with defense. It has nothing to do with going after ISIS."). 

But when she got there, the guard told her she wasn't allowed to take notes. Then he relented and told her she could take notes, but that he would confiscate them and read and file them when she was done.

When the New Zealand trade minister explained that TPP was being kept secret to prevent public debate, he was wrong. It's also being kept secret to prevent Congressional debate.

It's no wonder that the Senate rejected the proposal to fast-track the TPP through Congress.

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