Tuesday, May 5, 2015

"And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read"

"Extreme secrecy eroding support for Obama's trade pact"
If you’re a member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving.

“It’s like being in kindergarten,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), who’s become the leader of the opposition to President Barack Obama’s trade agenda. “You give back the toys at the end.”

For those out to sink Obama’s free trade push, highlighting the lack of public information is becoming central to their opposition strategy: The White House isn’t even telling Congress what it’s asking for, they say, or what it’s already promised foreign governments.

9 comments:

edutcher said...

The most transparent...

Ah, forget it.

I'm Full of Soup said...

Where the hell do we live anymore? The Soviet Union? Why do these Congress critters put up with this crap? I say take a news crew down there and push your way in- are they going to shoot a Congress critter if he did that?

Amartel said...

Just like the Clintons. You know there's something shady going on just by the way they're suppressing evidence.

Methadras said...

This is clearly Orwellian in nature. The professional politicians have taken over the American society and economy now for nearly seven decades. This has to end.

chickelit said...

Based on the secrecy alone, I hope the agreement fails in a vote.

AllenS said...

We could tell you whats in it, but then we'd have to kill you.

edutcher said...

AJ Lynch said...

Where the hell do we live anymore? The Soviet Union? Why do these Congress critters put up with this crap?

My guess is spelled NSA.

Michael Haz said...

Off-topic comment: The "I'm not a robot" thing does not work. I ignore it, hit publish your comment, and my comment is published.

Maybe it's just me. I may have achieved Prime Zork level of scientology or something.

Methadras said...

When did legislation become secret in that one has to vote for it, pass it, to know what's in it? Oh wait.