USTR Ambassador “Offended” By TPP Transparency Concerns
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It’s perfectly transparent, if your one of the people they decide to be transparent with. Otherwise, it’s none of your business so why should you care? Go away, you’re just trying to make the country less secure.
All respect to Mr. Kirk’s office…
…but his assessment of the situation is, I strongly suspect, in error. Grievous error.
That sounds like a “term of art”
When diplomats fence, they do so politely: can anyone put this exceedingly odd response into context?
I could interpret it as “you’re a liar, pants on fire”, or as “I have no reply, I’ll pretend to be insulted”.
Anyone speak ambasadorese?
–dave