Posted on 06/10/2015 1:48:33 PM PDT by amnestynone
Discovered inside the huge tranche of secretive Obamatrade documents released by Wikileaks are key details on how technically any Republican voting for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would technically also be voting to massively expand President Obama’s executive authority when it comes to immigration matters.
The mainstream media covered the Wikileaks document dump extensively, but did not mention the immigration chapter contained within it, so Breitbart News took the documents to immigration experts to get their take on it. Nobody has figured how big a deal the documents uncovered by Wikileaks are until now. (See below)
The president’s Trade in Services Act (TiSA) documents, which is one of the three different close-to-completely-negotiated deals that would be fast-tracked making up the president’s trade agreement, show Obamatrade in fact unilaterally alters current U.S. immigration law. TiSA, like TPP or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) deals, are international trade agreements that President Obama is trying to force through to final approval. The way he can do so is by getting Congress to give him fast-track authority through TPA.
TiSA is even more secretive than TPP. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill can review the text of TPP in a secret, secured room inside the Capitol—and in some cases can bring staffers who have high enough security clearances—but with TiSA, no such draft text is availab
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Okay, but how do we know we can trust WikiLeaks? You think they don’t have an agenda?
I am afraid to say I trust Wikileaks way more than I trust Obama
A person who is not an actual American, has no concern whatsoever about policies destructive to this nation. As a matter of fact, Destructive policies is exactly what you would expect from a third world imbecile, which is what Obama is.
Fundaamental transformation?
I trust neither. In my book, Snowden, Manning and the idiot who founded WikiLeaks are traitors, just like Dear Leader. I was privy to much more classified information than all three combined and I took my oath not to reveal that information seriously. I’ll go to the grave with it.
This is a coup and its no longer silent..they are in our faces with usurping our Constitution and invading our country with illegals and ISIS.
This isn’t just outrageous it demands action from those that love their country and won’t let them make everything your ancestors sacrificed to make America what it was.
I knew it, what other juicy tidbits will come out. Basically Obama’s executive amnesty is dead through the courts, but the Trade Agreement gives him more powers and diminishes those of the Congress and the Courts to virtually non existant. The president can defer to Global Governance, this was what was promised in the secret meeting that Obama and Romney had. America is not in charge, it is the UN and Obama, Boehner, Ryan sold the US for thirty pieces of silver!
someone please explain to me why a security clearance is needed to review a trade agreement
unles the items to be traded relate to defense / military matters, I’m at a loss why it’d need to be secret... unless the contents would devastate the US and 0bama wants to delay anyone finding out for as long as possible (to maximize damage)
No, just stupidity. "Fundamental transformation" imply someone knows what they are doing.
Destruction is easy and takes no brain power. Just raw force. If it required intelligence, Obama would screw it up because he is the most unintelligent man who will ever be President.
He is basically a Liberal Media Ventriloquist dummy.
I trust Wiki leaks more than I trust the GOP.
US Chamber of Commerce would support a dictator if it caused a 1% increase in their bottom dollar.
The GOP-e will vote for anything the US Chamber of Commerce wants if it pays them.
America! Want support? Just how much money does your Lobbyist have?
Don’t have a Lobbyist? Well you suck.
I would hope that your commitment to the US Constitution would be greater than your oath to secrecy.
So you’re saying that PFC Bradley “Chelsea” Manning is a staunch defender of the constitution and I’m not?
“US Chamber of Commerce would support a dictator if it caused a 1% increase in their bottom dollar.
The GOP-e will vote for anything the US Chamber of Commerce wants if it pays them.
America! Want support? Just how much money does your Lobbyist have?
Don’t have a Lobbyist? Well you suck.”
Yuhp, all we accomplished is lowering their taxes and now that we lowered them they do not need us anymore. For the first time In my life I am in favor of raising taxes on these turds. As long as the border is unsecure and as long as the corporate media stabs us we should favor raising them back on them.
Why did Ted Cruz, who said he read the TPP, go to such great lengths such as to write an Op-Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal to push for TPP thereby cheekily attempting to smother righteous conservative opposition to TPP? Conservatives know TPP is part of NWO/Obama liquidation of Congressional authority, individual liberty, national sovereignty and the further empowerment of the multi-national corporations in dictating policies.
“Cruz and Ryan: Don’t Trust Obama… Except on Trade Talks”
By Rob Garver,
The Fiscal Times
April 22, 2015
Trust, or the lack thereof, has been a key issue for Republicans talking about the Obama presidency for years.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, for example, has repeatedly said that the Obama administration cannot be trusted on a wide range of issues, such as immigration reform and National Security Agency surveillance. Another critic of the administration, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI), has frequently hit the administration with the accusation that it cannot be trusted. “”Here’s the issue that all Republicans agree on: We don’t trust the president to enforce the law,” he said last year in a discussion about immigration reform.
But apparently there is one thing that Cruz and Ryan do trust the president to do: negotiate a trade deal.
In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal this morning, the two conservatives called on their fellow lawmakers to pass a bill giving the president trade promotion authority, which would allow the Congress only an up-or-down vote on international trade deals negotiated with overseas trading partners.
The issue at hand is, most prominently, the Trans Pacific Partnership, a deal being worked out between the U.S. and nearly 20 Pacific nations to reduce barriers to trade. The administration is also in negotiations over a trade deal with European nations.
“These two agreements alone would mean greater access to a billion customers for American manufacturers, farmers and ranchers,” Cruz and Ryan wrote. “But before the U.S. can complete the agreements, Congress needs to strengthen the country’s bargaining position by establishing trade-promotion authority, also known as TPA, which is an arrangement between Congress and the president for negotiating and considering trade agreements. In short, TPA is what U.S. negotiators need to win a fair deal for the American worker.”
The op-ed is plainly an effort to head off objections among many Republicans, primarily in the House of Representatives, to giving the president the power to bring a completed trade deal to Congress for a vote without giving lawmakers a chance to amend it. That is what the other countries participating in the agreement are demanding. They are not interested in hashing out a deal with the administration only to see it pulled apart again by lawmakers seeking to insert special protections and benefits for favored parties.
Granting the president TPA implies a level of trust in him to negotiate a good deal for the country.
Cruz and Paul, for their part, try to spin the current trade agreements as being conducted under Congressional direction. “Congress lays out three basic requirements for the administration. First, it must pursue nearly 150 specific negotiating objectives, like beefing up protections for U.S. intellectual property or eliminating kickbacks for government-owned firms. Second, the administration must consult regularly with Congress and meet high transparency standards. And third, before anything becomes law, Congress gets the final say.”
Related: Lawmakers Closer on Fast-Track Trade Deal
In truth, though, very few people really know what’s in the trade deal. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), usually an administration ally, has blasted the opaque process of deal-making. “It’s telling when Members of Congress and their staff have an easier time accessing national security documents than proposed trade deals,” he said.
Cruz and Paul are working to convince their fellow Republicans to trust the administration on trade talks because Democrats, including Brown and many others, don’t. The Democratic Party has increasingly turned against the TPP for a variety of reasons, including concerns about labor standards and the environment. There are enough Democrats in support of a deal to get it through the Senate, but the deal’s fate is much less clear in the House.
For TPA to pass without strong Democratic support in the House, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) needs to some of the hard-right in his own conference to back it. Boehner has been stymied by members of his own caucus in the past, and he risks losing them again over the idea of trusting the president to negotiate a trade deal. That is the most likely cause behind an unlikely call by two of the president’s most implacable political opponents to just trust him this one time.
Not possible. I have been assured that Ted Cruz added an amendment that prohibited that very thing. </sarcasm>
I’ve never said one word defending Manning and I have no reason to question your integrity. My only point is that when the government is committing unlawful or treasonous acts it is more honorable to release the information. By the way, thank you for your service.
Agreed.
In all honesty, this is simply the same principle or strategy of “hiring” a foreign army to defeat and control your own opposing population.
In one historical case, a king, (who in the end was executed after a bloody civil war), was charged with “paying from the public treasury [from taxes] a foreign army,” to bribe public servants, enforce higher taxation, control and wage war against his own citizenry, and to defeat the opposing citizen army.
There are several instances and variations of this strategy being employed throughout history.
Honestly, this is quite literally what is happening.
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