https://portside.org/2017-12-18/trans-pacific-partnership-flawded-process

'Whatever one thinks about “free trade,” the secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership process represents a huge assault on the principles and practice of democratic governance. That is untenable in the age of transparency, especially coming from an administration that is otherwise so quick to trumpet its commitment to open government.'

Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s
Global Trade Watch and Ben Beachy and the
group's the research director