U.S. Judges Getting Disclosure Data Deleted (washingtonpost.com)

U.S. Judges Getting Disclosure Data Deleted (washingtonpost.com): "Nearly 600 times in recent years, a judicial committee acting in private has stripped information from reports intended to alert the public to conflicts of interest involving federal judges.

The committee decided that the information removed might tend to endanger a particular judge or put his or her financial investments at risk, according to a study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress."