One question I have had since I first heard about the TPP is: why the secrecy? The TPP is meant to be a trade agreement for multiple nations, if the end goal is

One question I have had since I first heard about the TPP is: why the secrecy? The TPP is meant to be a trade agreement for multiple nations, if the end goal is to make it easy to do business with other countries, why are the details so scarce, why is nobody allowed to know of its contents? We are talking about an agreement a lot of members of congress do not know anything about, but representatives from companies like General Electric do. We should be legitimately scared of how the TPP is being handled, how its terms are being negotiated and the stasian like control that Obama and the administration seems to have over who can view the agreement in progress as well as informing the public of its contents. The reason is obvious: if the public were to know what the terms of the TPP were, they would be outraged (and rightfully so). If a bill has the power to increase the cost of medicines, enforce broken patent system protections, change copyright laws and restrict your freedoms in the real world and online, don't the public have a right to know? How are those who are even given the opportunity to view the bill (in limited circumstance) able to back the bill and make a decision on supporting it when the government is not letting anyone take a copy back and closely inspect its contents deeper? Could it be the Obama administration and the backers of the bill do not want anyone to see what it truly contains? Limiting how people view it and when is a great way to hide the corporately sponsored additions that are littered throughout the bill. What we have here is nothing more than a corporate power grab. You know something is fundamentally broken when we have to rely on a site like WikiLeak's to keep the public updated as to what changes have been made to a monumentally massive trade agreement. I hope this bill is killed or as a decent compromise, has the secrecy veil lifted and the real negotiations can be done in public in a more democratic and less North Korean style manner.