Originally Posted by
etudiant
That raises the question of why was Boeing allowed to release these documents now? Has the DoJ criminal investigation ended or did it dawn on someone that DoJ would not look good if this came out after the various inquiries? Seems rather murky at best.
Absent a court order, DOJ has no authority to prevent Boeing from releasing documents to the FAA. And it's a bit difficult to imagine a court issuing such an order without an extraordinarily good reason. It's one thing for Justice to withhold information, quite another to try to prevent a regulated entity from sharing the information with its regulator.