“If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door,” stated the article by Edward-Isaac Dovere.
“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,” Dovere continued. “And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read.”
UNBELIEVABLE
Smells to high heaven!
“And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read.”
What are they gonna do? Take away your decoder ring? Say something scornful? If the true details are incendiary enough, then the person revealing them will be protected.