A law originally intended to encourage whistleblowers may have been used by the Bush Justice Dept to cover up allegations of fraud by contractors such as Halliburton spin-off KBR. The ACLU alleges that secrecy provisions added to the False Claims Act (FCA) in 1986 have been used to keep complaints under seal indefinitely and gag whistleblowers who might otherwise speak out. |
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