According to MapLight's analysis, if you want to see what's in the TPP draft, it helps to be a major corporate donor to political campaigns.
Major Political Donors Have Access To TPP Documents. Everyone Else? Not So Much
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January 20, 2014

Via Techdirt:

The good folks over at MapLight have taken a look at the members of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (ITAC-15). As we've discussed in the past ITAC 15 is a committee of high powered corporate representatives who are basically the only ones with full access to the text of the intellectual property chapter of the TPP. Those on ITAC 15 are allowed to see the latest text by logging into a system from the comfort of their desks. If Congress wants to see it? No luck. Members of Congress are allowed only to visit the USTR offices, where they'll be shown a copy of...

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