Lawmakers Say TPP Meetings Classified To Keep Americans in the Dark

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Fast tracking TPP while the country goes Right to work is wrong….


“Making it classified further ensures that, even if we accidentally learn something, we cannot share it. What is [Froman]working so hard to hide? What is the specific legal basis for all this senseless secrecy?” Doggett said to The Hill.

“Open trade should begin with open access,” Doggett said. “Members expected to vote on trade deals should be able to read the unredacted negotiating text.”

“I’m not happy about it,” Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) told the Huffington Post, referring to the briefing with Froman and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez on Wednesday. The meeting—focused on the section of the TPP that deals with the controversial ‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement’ (ISDS) mechanism—has been labeled “classified,” so that lawmakers and any of their staff who attend will be barred, under threat of punishment, of revealing what they learn with constituents or outside experts."

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/17/lawmakers-say-tpp-meetings-classified-keep-americans-dark

http://economyincrisis.org/content/lawmakers-say-tpp-meetings-classified-to-keep-americans-in-the-dark

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1. your secrecy loving president prefers you not know anything about it until too late nt

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2. There can be no good that can come to our children and grandchildren with this bill.

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6. +1000

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3. +1

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4. What is [Froman]working so hard to hide? What is the specific legal basis for all this senseless

secrecy?"

You know this can't be good...

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5. "If you're doing no wrong, then you have nothing to hide."

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8. It does seem that it is so obvious that what they are doing is wrong that they need to do it in

secrecy.

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7. This is an unbelievable affront to every American.

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9. These law makers are double dipping in the paycheck well… They are taking tax payer dollars to

represent the American people's interests, and then they are taking corporate dollars to represent corporation interest. Corporate interests are not human interest, and should take a back burner to Human interests.