Here is Obama's "most transparent White House in history" for you:

[cheapdate]

46. There's a pretty big difference

in the matter whether or not a choice is involved.

Is it unusual for multiparty negotiations over trade agreements to take place in private? I think probably not.

Nonetheless, Alan Grayson is right to make noise. The leaked draft document from last summer, if it's to be believed, and I assume it is, is a piece of shit. It seems plain that it would give foreign corporations the authority and the right to ignore US law.

"Each Party shall accord to investors of another Party treatment no less favourable than that it accords, in like circumstances, to investors of any other Party or of any non-Party with respect to the establishment, acquisition, expansion, management, conduct, operation, and sale or other disposition of investments in its territory."
- from leaked TPP draft, link at HuffPo

Sounds like a continuation of the race to the bottom.

(on edit : wait, legalese is confusing. This provision only says that a party can't impose stricter requirements on a foreign corporation than it does on native corporations. I fucking hate contract language.)