Originally Posted by
Organfreak
Don't shoot the messenger!
In the case of a private entity passing judgment on the causes of a horrible crash
The investigatory agencies aren't private entities though, they're usually governmental agencies with a charter that explicitly denotes their independence from the regulator and other government bodies and are ultimately accountable to the taxpayers (many of whom are also the travelling public).
The limits on the use of CVR data for public dissemination haven't changed in four decades, and it wasn't the investigatory agencies that set those limits. As a result, words to the effect of "The BEA is censoring data" are misleading, because the BEA, as with other agencies, has to abide by limits that they themselves have no control over.