; or . (b) Applicability to detailees Such subsection is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (5) Employee The term employee , with respect to an agency or a covered intelligence community element, includes an individual who has been detailed to such agency or covered intelligence community element. . (c) Private right of action for unlawful disclosure of whistleblower identity Subsection (f) of such section is amended to read as follows: (f) Enforcement (1) In general Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the President shall provide for the enforcement of this section. (2) Private right of action for unlawful, willful disclosure of whistleblower identity In a case in which an employee of an agency, or other employee or officer of the Federal Government, takes a personnel action described in subsection (a)(3)(J) against an employee of a covered intelligence community element as a reprisal in violation of subsection (b) or in a case in which a contractor employee takes a personnel action described in such subsection against another contractor employee as a reprisal in violation of subsection (c), the employee or contractor employee against whom the personnel action was taken may bring a private action for all appropriate remedies, including injunctive relief and compensatory and punitive damages, against the employee or contractor employee who took the personnel action, in a Federal district court of competent jurisdiction within 180 days of when the employee or contractor employee first learned of or should have learned of the violation. . VIII Accountability for Acting Officials 801. Short title This title may be cited as the Accountability for Acting Officials Act . 802. Clarification of Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (a) Eligibility requirements Section 3345 of title 5, United States Code, is amended as follows: (1) In subsection (a)— (A) in paragraph (1), by adding before the semicolon at the end the following: , but, and except as provided in subsection (e), only if the