The climate for judges and prosecutors who work for the U.S. government has turned dangerous recently. Threats have more than doubled within the past five years, according to a new study by the Department of Justice’s inspector general that examined protection given to the federal judiciary and U.S. Attorneys. Between 2003 and 2008, the number of threats and “inappropriate communications” (messages considered worrisome but not explicitly threatening) leaped from 592 to 1,278.