“The trans­paren­cy clock has run out on the TPP. No more secre­cy. No more excus­es. Let’s open the TPP once and for all,” declared Wik­ileaks founder Julian Assange.

In its lat­est attempt at cit­i­zen muck­rak­ing, the inter­na­tion­al trans­paren­cy activist group Wik­ileaks announced its inten­tion to crowd source a $100,000 reward in return for 26 chap­ters of the Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship (TPP) on Tuesday.

Nego­ti­at­ed in secret between the Unit­ed States and 11 oth­er Pacif­ic Rim nations, the TPP remains high­ly con­tro­ver­sial. Labor activists, envi­ron­men­tal groups, and Demo­c­ra­t­ic mem­bers of Con­gress argue that the TPP would allow cor­po­ra­tions to flout the judg­ments of domes­tic courts, put Amer­i­can work­ers at a com­pet­i­tive dis­ad­van­tage and allow multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions to dis­re­gard envi­ron­men­tal regulations.

Wik­ileaks also con­tends that the TPP would ​“police the Inter­net on behalf of the con­tent indus­try, lim­it the avail­abil­i­ty of afford­able gener­ic med­i­cines, and dras­ti­cal­ly cur­tail each country’s leg­isla­tive sovereignty.”

Sup­port­ers of the TPP, includ­ing Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma, argue there is ​“noth­ing secret” about the trade agree­ment. Mem­bers of Con­gress are in fact allowed to read all chap­ters of the TPP at a secure loca­tion, pro­vid­ed they do not take notes or pic­tures of the TPP draft.

The final draft of the TPP will be released 60 days before Pres­i­dent Oba­ma signs the agree­ment. Law­mak­ers who vote for the TPP will also for­feit their rights to amend the agree­ment reports NPR.

Crit­ics of the TPP argue that the secre­cy sur­round­ing the agree­ment is designed to insu­late it from the crit­i­cism it deserves.

“[They] can’t make this deal pub­lic because if the Amer­i­can peo­ple saw what was in it, they would be opposed to it,” wrote Sen­a­tor Eliz­a­beth War­ren on her blog.

Wik­ileaks has already released three chap­ters of the TPP, con­cern­ing intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights, the envi­ron­ment and investment.

On Wednes­day, reports the Huff­in­g­ton Post, Wik­ileaks released 17 doc­u­ments relat­ed to nego­ti­a­tions on the Trade In Ser­vices Agree­ment, anoth­er trade agree­ment between the Unit­ed States, the Euro­pean Union and more than 20 oth­er countries.

As of Thurs­day morn­ing, Wik­ileaks had suc­cess­ful­ly crowd fund­ed more than $44,000 or 44% of its stat­ed goal of $100,000.