{"id":8867,"date":"2015-06-06T07:22:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T12:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2015-06-06T07:22:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T12:22:48","slug":"8867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8867","title":{"rendered":"Forget the TPP \u2013 Wikileaks Releases Documents from the Equally Shady \u201cTrade in Services Agreement,\u201d or TISA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/06\/05\/forget-the-tpp-wikileaks-releases-documents-from-the-equally-shady-trade-in-services-agreement-or-tisa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forget the TPP \u2013 Wikileaks Releases Documents from the Equally Shady \u201cTrade in Services Agreement,\u201d or TISA<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-24658\" src=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-05-at-11.17.16-AM-1024x746.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-05 at 11.17.16 AM\" width=\"355\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If it sounds complicated, it is.\u00a0The important point is that this trade agreement contains a crucial discussion of governments\u2019 abilities to meaningfully protect civil liberties. And it is not being treated as a human rights discussion. It is being framed solely as an economic issue, ignoring the implications for human rights, and it is being held in a classified document that the public is now seeing months after it was negotiated, and only because it was released through WikiLeaks.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The process is also highly\u00a0secretive\u2014in fact, trade agreement texts are classified. While the executive branch does consult with members of Congress, even congressional staffers with security clearance have until recently been\u00a0prevented\u00a0from seeing the texts. Furthermore, certain trade industry advisers are allowed access to U.S. negotiating objectives and negotiators that the public and public interest groups do not have.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n\u2013 From the\u00a0<em>Slate<\/em>\u00a0article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2015\/06\/trade_in_services_agreement_could_change_the_global_internet.html\">Privacy Is Not a Barrier to Trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t heard about\u00a0about the Trade in Services Agreement, aka TISA, don\u2019t worry, you\u2019re not alone. While I had heard of it before, I never read anything substantial about it until today. What sparked my reading interest on the subject were a series of very troubling\u00a0articles published via several media outlets following a document dump by Wikileaks. Here\u2019s how the whistleblower organization describes the TISA leak on it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tisa\/\">document release page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>WikiLeaks releases today 17 secret documents from the ongoing TISA (Trade In Services Agreement) negotiations which cover the United States, the European Union and 23 other countries including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Taiwan &amp; Israel \u2014 which together comprise two-thirds of global GDP.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the TPP \u2013 Wikileaks Releases Documents from the Equally Shady \u201cTrade in Services Agreement,\u201d or TISA If it sounds complicated, it is.\u00a0The important point is that this trade agreement contains a crucial discussion of governments\u2019 abilities to meaningfully protect civil liberties. And it is not being treated as a human rights discussion. 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