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Out of the Darkness, Into the Light

"Congress must address the secrecy, and the views of the privileged advisers, that shaped the agreement. Otherwise, 'fast' will be little more than a euphemism for 'avoid the public, and benefit the fortunate few,'" writes Margot E. Kaminski, an assistant professor of law at Ohio State University and a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, in The New York Times.

Kaminski has testified in a lawsuit challenging the government's decision to classify the documents as national security information. She says:

National security secrecy may be appropriate to protect us from our enemies; it should not be used to protect our politicians from us. For an administration that paints itself as dedicated to transparency and public input, the insistence on extensive secrecy in trade is disappointing and disingenuous. And the secrecy of trade negotiations does not just hide information from the public. It creates a funnel where powerful interests congregate, absent the checks, balances and necessary hurdles of the democratic process.

Read the full op-ed here.