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An organization called Public Citizen filed a lawsuit on Monday to get the United States to release details of the concessions it made to other nations to settle its online gambling dispute being handled by the World Trade Organization.

Public Citizen contends that President George W. Bush’s administration is illegally withholding details of its agreement with the European Union, which gives the European Union access to more business sectors in the United States as compensation for the country closing off its borders to online gambling.

“Americans have a right to know what kinds of trade concessions the U.S. government is granting other countries, especially when those deals have a significant impact on domestic policy and may be worth billions of dollars,” said Bonnie I. Robin-Vergeer, a Public Citizen attorney.

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