GAP Conference: The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Public's Right to Know

The following are the complete materials provided to conference delegates in electronic form. All links open either an Adobe Reader (.pdf) file or a Microsft Word (.doc) file, always in a new window.

Conference agenda (pdf)

Speaker bios (pdf)

Panel 1: Restoring Openness and Accountability to Government and Corporations

• Special Interest Takeover -- The Bush Administration and the Dismantling Of Public Safeguards, Center for American Progress & OMB Watch for The Citizens for Sensible Safeguards Coalition
• Restoring Openness and Accountability to Government and Corporations -- Presentation by Bonnie I. Robin-Vergeer
• Supreme Court and Other Developments Affecting Litigation of Retaliation and Whistleblower Claims -- ABA Section of Labor and
  Employment Law and ABA Center for CLE
• Securities Litigation Report
• The Umpires Strike Back -- R. Scott Oswald and Jason Zuckerman, Legal Times
• Prohibited Retaliation Under the False Claims Act -- Jason Zuckerman
• Litigating Whistleblower Retaliation Claims -- Jason Zuckerman
• Overview of the Employee Protection Provisions of The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 -- U.S. Department of Labor, OALJ
• HR Rep (110-259) Conference Report on the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 -- U.S. Department of Labor, OALJ
• Defense contractors - Miscellaneous Procurement Provisions
• Contractor Statement -- McCaskill

Panel 2: The Special Case of National Security

• The Government’s Unchecked Retaliation Against National Security Whistleblowers
• Homeland and National Security Whistleblower Protections: The Unfinished Agenda -- Program on Government Oversight
• National Security Whistleblowers, CRS Report for Congress --Louis Fisher, Government and Finance Division
• Examining the State Secrets Privilege: Protecting National Security While Preserving Accountability -- Statement by Louis Fisher before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
• The State Secrets Privilege: Relying on Reynolds -- Louis Fisher
• Letter to Committee on the Judiciary from Attorney General Michael Mukasey
• Letter to The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy, U.S. Senate from Louis Fisher Re the State Secrets Bill (S.2533)
• People v. State -- Legal Times, Louis Fisher
• The Secrecy Trump -- Ann Beeson
• Letter from Washington: An Inconvenient Patriot -- David Rose, Vanity Fair
• Public Record Excerpts -- Thad Guyer
• Avoiding Traps, Making Change and an Effective Legislative Response -- Stephen Kohn

PANEL 3: The next steps towards achieving a comprehensive Openness agenda

• Consumer Product Safety Comission Reform Act Memo
• FDA Whistleblower Protection Provision Memo
• Final House Bill False Claims Act Amendments
• Protecting America's Workers Act (PAWA) Senate Bill
• Selected Public Records of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Finance Committee
• Senate Drug Whistleblower Proposal with Explanation and Precedents
• Summary of Private Sector Whistleblower Protection Streamlining Act of 2007
• TAF Analysis of Proposed False Claims Act Amendments -- Jeb White of Taxpayers Against Fraud (TAF)
• TAF Summary Points for False Claims Act House Amendments
• Talking Points - Drug Industry Whistleblower Protections
• Talking Points- Whistleblower Protection Act Amendments
• Testimony of OSHA's Director of Enforcement Programs
• Whistleblower Protection Act Jury Trial Memo 2008

All materials reproduced with the permission of
Government Accountability Project (GAP)