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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)