{"id":151301,"date":"2015-05-15T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/?p=10920"},"modified":"2015-05-15T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:29:41","slug":"law-says-text-tpp-must-remain-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/law-says-text-tpp-must-remain-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"What law says the text of the TPP must remain secret?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the US Congress: reveal the contents of the TPP now<\/p>\n<p>Jon Rappoport<\/p>\n<p>It seems like a case of mass hypnosis. People claiming they can\u2019t say what\u2019s in the TPP trade agreement. And mainstream media accept this premise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s right. Congress must stay silent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pop quiz: who says the text of the TPP must remain secret?<\/p>\n<p>Under what authority?<\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress are scuttling around like weasels, claiming they can\u2019t disclose what\u2019s in this far-reaching, 12-nation trade treaty.<\/p>\n<p>They can go into a sealed room and read a draft, but they can\u2019t copy pages, and they can\u2019t tell the public what they just read.<\/p>\n<p>Why not?<\/p>\n<p>If there is a US law forbidding disclosure, name the law.<\/p>\n<p>Can you recall anything in the Constitution that establishes secret treaties?<\/p>\n<p>Is there a prior treaty that states the text of all treaties can be hidden from the people?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/15\/what-law-says-the-text-of-the-tpp-must-remain-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What law says the text of the TPP must remain secret? To the US Congress: reveal the contents of the TPP now By Jon Rappoport May 15, 2015 It seems like a case of mass hypnosis. People claiming they can&rsquo;t say what&rsquo;s in the TPP trade agreement. And mainstream media accept this premise. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s right. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":151300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-151301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}