Sec. 1088. Conflict of interest certification for investigations relating to whistleblower retaliation
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In this section— the term covered employee means a whistleblower who is an employee of the Department of Defense or a military department, or an employee of a contractor, subcontractor, grantee, or subgrantee thereof; the term covered investigation means an investigation carried out by an Inspector General of a military department or the Inspector General of the Department of Defense relating to— a retaliatory personnel action taken against a member of the Armed Forces under section 1034 of title 10, United States Code; or any retaliatory action taken against a covered employee; and the term military department means each of the departments described in section 104 of title 5, United States Code.
Each investigator involved in a covered investigation shall submit to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense or the Inspector General of the military department, as applicable, a certification that there was no conflict of interest between the investigator, any witness involved in the covered investigation, and the covered employee or member of the Armed Forces, as applicable, during the conduct of the covered investigation. The Inspector General of the Department of Defense shall develop a standardized form to be used by each investigator to submit the certification required under paragraph (1).
Each certification submitted under paragraph
(1)shall be included in the file of the applicable covered investigation.