The Office of Government Ethics is responsible for collecting and disclosing executive branch financial disclosure forms and ethical agreements. While the OGE's site lists which officials have completed the documents, it does not post the documents themselves. The 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which created OGE, forbids OGE from releasing the document.
"So ProPublica, the not yet year-old privately-supported non-profit investigative reporting shop, has taken it upon itself to plug the gap by requesting, collecting, and posting the documents for all to see."
-- Columbia Journalism Review
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