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Related: About this forumState Department Blocks Release Of Hillary Clinton-Era TPP Emails Until After The Election
Trade is a hot issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. But correspondence from Hillary Clinton and her top State Department aides about a controversial 12-nation trade deal will not be available for public review at least not until after the election. The Obama administration abruptly blocked the release of Clintons State Department correspondence about the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), after first saying it expected to produce the emails this spring.
The decision came in response to International Business Times' open records request for correspondence between Clintons State Department office and the United States Trade Representative. The request, which was submitted in July 2015, specifically asked for all such correspondence that made reference to the TPP.
The State Department originally said it estimated the request would be completed by April 2016. Last week the agency said it had completed the search process for the correspondence but also said it was delaying the completion of the request until late November 2016 weeks after the presidential election. The delay was issued in the same week the Obama administration filed a court motion to try to kill a lawsuit aimed at forcing the federal government to more quickly comply with open records requests for Clinton-era State Department documents.
Clintons shifting positions on the TPP have been a source of controversy during the campaign: She repeatedly promoted the deal as secretary of state but then in 2015 said, "I did not work on TPP," even though some leaked State Department cables show that her agency was involved in diplomatic discussions about the pact. Under pressure from her Democratic primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, Clinton announced in October that she now opposes the deal and has disputed that she ever fully backed it in the first place.
While some TPP-related emails have been released by the State Department as part of other open records requests, IBTs request was designed to provide a comprehensive view of how involved Clinton and her top aides were in shaping the trade agreement, and whether her agency had a hand in crafting any particular provisions in the pact. Unions, environmental organizations and consumer groups say the agreement will help corporations undermine domestic labor, conservation and other public interest laws.
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/state-department-blocks-release-hillary-clinton-era-tpp-emails-until-after
pengu
(462 posts)It will show she's full of shit about not supporting it. They can't have that. lol
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Dumb move LOL! but perhaps the only move they have left.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)And they wonder why we are so passionately opposed to the establishment.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)Amazing that the only chance Americans may have to stop TPP is to vote for Trump.
Meaning many progressives would just stay home.
2016, the year Hillary supporters killed the progressive wing of the DNC.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)President Obama knows what he's doing
stonewalling this request for a evil trade bill that's really good for you.
Please report to room 101 at the Ministry of Love building.
And remember! Love and Kindness is our motto!!!
SamKnause
(13,102 posts)It is so disheartening.
Being political aware can be absolutely soul draining.
KPN
(15,644 posts)That's really what they want -- both parties -- in effect. The difference is the GOP created their own insurgents intentionally. They just didn't account for the unintended consequences. The Dems have never done that. Instead, they have actively discouraged the progressive movement for decades now.
The question is: will it continue to work for them, or are they about to lose control. We shall see.
NJCher
(35,667 posts)guilty as charged.
What a dumb move on Obama's part--or maybe his best move, considering what the content is.
Cher
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)in case anyone wants to post it.
Triana
(22,666 posts)And it will stay that way because it CHOSE to.
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Dawgs
(14,755 posts)Good job Democrats.