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In reply to the discussion: Time to face facts: Assange played the left like a fiddle on TPP [View all]zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Rule 1 is that you don't wanna do/say anything in private that you can't discuss publicly. Rule 2 is that as one is working, one must prepare to make public the process and the information. There can be a delay, but one can't operate on the "no one will ever see this" principal. In the case of the TPP it was foolish to think they could go years without releasing anything. It was foolish to think they could lock out various parties and they would just sit by and do nothing. They were worried about the Senate and they should have realized how many people out there were trying to get anything, and most of them weren't going to be looking for supportive information. It was predictable that something would happen and it was darn near irresponsible that they did nothing to deal with it, much less prepare for it.