; (C) cooperating with or disclosing information to the Inspector General (or any other component responsible for internal investigation or review) of an agency, or the Special Counsel, in accordance with applicable provisions of law; or (D) refusing to obey an order that would require the individual to violate a law, rule, or regulation. (b) Agency action A Federal agency may not pressure a Federal contractor to take, fail to take, or threaten to take or fail to take any personnel action relating to an employee of the Federal contractor based on a disclosure or action described in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a). (c) Retroactive effect This section shall apply to a personnel action taken or failed to be taken, or threatened to be taken or failed to be taken before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act. 4. No termination or prosecution of whistleblowers Congress reaffirms that no Federal employee or employee of a Federal contractor should be terminated or prosecuted for making protected disclosures or any other disclosures as a whistleblower. 5. Ensuring Sixth Amendment protections Congress reaffirms that, in the case of criminal prosecutions and impeachments arising from the disclosures of whistleblowers, the accused has the right to confront his or her accuser in such proceedings and that right is not superseded by the whistleblower protections.