DamianTV
06-09-2015, 09:47 AM
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/06/08/2329206/emails-show-how-industry-lobbyists-basically-wrote-the-trans-pacific-partnership
This Techdirt story shows how industry lobbyists influenced the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150605/11483831239/revealed-emails-show-how-industry-lobbyists-basically-wrote-tpp.shtml), to the point that one even openly celebrates that the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) version copied his own text word for word. The email exchange (http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/06/05/confidential-ustr-emails-show-close-industry-involvement-in-tpp-negotiations/) between Jim DeLisi, from Fanwood Chemical, to Barbara Weisel, a USTR official reads: "Hi Barbara – John sent through a link to the P4 agreement. I have taken a quick look at the rules of origin. Someone owes USTR a royalty payment – these are our rules. They will need some tweaking but will likely not need major surgery. This is a very pleasant surprise. I will study more closely over the weekend."
Must be the high life, getting paid to screw the American People over, drag them over the coals, through the mud, and every other way they can stick it to us.
This Techdirt story shows how industry lobbyists influenced the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150605/11483831239/revealed-emails-show-how-industry-lobbyists-basically-wrote-tpp.shtml), to the point that one even openly celebrates that the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) version copied his own text word for word. The email exchange (http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/06/05/confidential-ustr-emails-show-close-industry-involvement-in-tpp-negotiations/) between Jim DeLisi, from Fanwood Chemical, to Barbara Weisel, a USTR official reads: "Hi Barbara – John sent through a link to the P4 agreement. I have taken a quick look at the rules of origin. Someone owes USTR a royalty payment – these are our rules. They will need some tweaking but will likely not need major surgery. This is a very pleasant surprise. I will study more closely over the weekend."
Must be the high life, getting paid to screw the American People over, drag them over the coals, through the mud, and every other way they can stick it to us.