Welcome back to Talking Feds, prosecutors roundtable that brings together prominent

former federal officials for a dynamic discussion of the most important legal topics of the day.

I'm Harry Littman, I'm a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General,

and a current Washington Post columnist.

I'm also a whistleblower lawyer, and my legal practice, while part-time has been exclusively

representing whistleblowers, under the False Claims Act, which you may have heard of, it's

also known as Lincoln's Law.

It was passed in the wake of the Civil War when, in Lincoln's words, unscrupulous contractors

would sell the Union Army, sugar, but it would really be sand, pants that fell apart

in the rain, crippled beasts, and the like.

But in the last 30 years or so, it's had a great resurgence and has returned over $60 billion

to the federal treasury.

We are in the age of the whistleblower officially.

In fact, we're in the very day in the week of the whistleblower and the midst of the year

of the whistleblower.

A whistleblower complaint has succeeded where the Mueller report did not initiate a bonafide

crisis in the presidency and bringing the prospect of impeachment to the fore.

We are expecting today Wednesday, October 2nd, a whistleblowing complaint from the State

Department.

There's a tax whistleblower on the scene, and this is all with respect to the Trump

administration.

There's been an explosion as we're going to hear in whistleblower activity generally in

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