; (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following: (2) Contractor employee The term contractor employee means an employee of a contractor, subcontractor, grantee, subgrantee, or personal services contractor of a covered intelligence community element. ; and (C) in paragraph (4), as so redesignated, in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) by inserting or a contractor employee of a covered intelligence community element after character) ; (2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively; (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection (c): (c) Contractor employees (1) A contractor employee or employee of a covered intelligence community element who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any personnel action, shall not, with respect to such authority, take or fail to take a personnel action with respect to any contractor employee as a reprisal for a lawful disclosure of information by the contractor employee to the Director of National Intelligence (or an employee designated by the Director of National Intelligence for such purpose), the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, the head of the contracting agency (or an employee designated by the head of that agency for such purpose), the appropriate inspector general of the contracting agency, a congressional intelligence committee, or a member of a congressional intelligence committee, which the contractor employee reasonably believes evidences— (A) a violation of any Federal law, rule, or regulation (including with respect to evidence of another employee or contractor employee accessing or sharing classified information without authorization)