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WikiLeaks Offers 'Bounty' for TPP Text Leak

Pro-transparency organization WikiLeaks launched a campaign on June 2 to generate $100,000 as a reward for the release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiating text. The organization aims to “crowd-source” the “bounty,” it said in a release (here). The U.S. and…

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other TPP parties have shielded the text from the public, though WikiLeaks has leaked a number of chapters over recent years (see 1503260017). Reps. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas and trade union officials also pushed the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to disclose the text in a June 2 press conference.