<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><header style="padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.071em; "><h2 class="entry-title peta" style="font-size: 28px; margin: 0.156em 0px; color: rgb(60, 60, 60); font-family: ff-din-web, Tahoma, verdana, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 1.25; letter-spacing: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; visibility: visible; "><a href="http://elizabethwarren.com/blog/if-people-knew-what-was-going-on-they-would-stop-it#" rel="bookmark" style="color: rgb(60, 60, 60); text-decoration: none; border: none transparent; ">If people knew what was going on, they would stop it</a></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; "><time class="updated" datetime="2013-06-21">June 21, 2013</time> | By <span class="author byline vcard fn">Elizabeth Warren</span></p></header><div class="entry-content"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 40px; color: rgb(95, 95, 95); font-family: Tahoma, verdana, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; "><em>We won't make the information public because if people knew what was going on, they would stop it.</em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(95, 95, 95); font-family: Tahoma, verdana, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; ">That's been the government's argument for not releasing the basic trade negotiation documents. Let me explain:</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(95, 95, 95); font-family: Tahoma, verdana, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; ">Trade agreements are important. They affect everything -- our imports and exports, wages, jobs, the environment, financial services, and even the Internet.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(95, 95, 95); font-family: Tahoma, verdana, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; ">But if people can't follow the basic outline of the negotiations, then they can't have any real input into the process.</p><div>More:</div><div><a href="http://elizabethwarren.com/blog/if-people-knew-what-was-going-on-they-would-stop-it">http://elizabethwarren.com/blog/if-people-knew-what-was-going-on-they-would-stop-it</a></div></div></div></body></html>