Why’s the deal being kept secret? Because it would be impossible to pass if the public knew what was really in it:
Senator Elizabeth Warren notes:Ron Kirk, until recently Mr. Obama’s top trade official, was remarkably candid about why he opposed making the text public: doing so, he suggested to Reuters, would raise such opposition that it could make the deal impossible to sign.
Supporters of the deal say to me, “They have to be secret, because if the American people knew what was actually in them, they would be opposed.”But it’s not only being hidden from the American people … it’s being hidden even from most U.S.Congress members.
A Congressman who has seen the text of the treaty says:
There is no national security purpose in keeping this text secret … this agreement hands the sovereignty of our country over to corporate interests.
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