"the more that we have uniformity and the more that it is embraced systemwide in the IG community that whistleblowers are sacrosanct and need to be protected at all costs, I think it is really important."
"Yes, that language would help."
"So you can't make anybody talk to you?"
"76 percent is a huge majority."
"I will tell you it is not reassuring to me at a hearing on contracting oversight that I find out that maybe the reason that we weren't doing as well as we need to do with the hotline is because we wer..."
"It is almost like we are saying it is more important to catch crooks in the stimulus money than it is to catch crooks anywhere else?"
"Let us talk a little bit about the Department of Justice."
"Common sense is on a vacation. We had the chance to fix it in that stimulus bill."
"the contract language could maybe get you enough information that you could get the attention of a prosecutor"
"Timing is everything."
"Well, first of all, that notion is insulting to risk assessment done by you as professionals."