War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

53 mins | Documentary | April 19, 2013

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

53 mins | Documentary | April 19, 2013

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse. It exposes the surprisingly worsening and threatening reality for whistleblowers and the press. The film includes interviews with whistleblowers Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm and award-winning journalists like David Carr, Lucy Dalglish, Glenn Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Michael Isikoff, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Jane Mayer, Dana Priest, Tom Vanden Brook and Sharon Weinberger.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers
Original title War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Directors Robert Greenwald
Writers

Cast

Daniel Ellsberg

as Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower

Franz Gayl

as Self - Whistleblower

Seymour Hersh

as Self - Journalist

David Carr

as Self - Journalist, New York Times

Sharon Weinberger

as Self - National Security Reporter

Tom Vanden Brook

as Self - Journalist, USA Today

Danielle Brian

as Self - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight

Conchita Gayl

as Self - Franz Gayl's Wife

Joe Biden

as Self - Vice President (archive footage)

Robert Gates

as Self - Former Secretary of Defense

Ben Freeman

as Self - National Security Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight

Winslow Wheeler

as Self - Director of the Straus Military Reform Project

William Hartung

as Self - Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy

Pete Sepp

as Self - Executive Vice President for National Taxpayers Union

Dana Priest

as Self - Investigative Reporter, Washington Post

Michael Isikoff

as Self - National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News

Thomas Drake

as Self - Whistleblower

Michael DeKort

as Self - Whistleblower

Thomas Tamm

as Self - Whistleblower

Jane Mayer

as Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Tom Devine

as Self - Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project

Bill Keller

as Self - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times

Eric Lipton

as Self - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times

Kate Bohner

as Self - KBTV Video Blog

Jesselyn Radack

as Self - Director of National Security and Human Rights, Government Accountability Project

J. William Leonard

as Self - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office

Steven Aftergood

as Himself - Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, The Federation of American Scientists

Barack Obama

as Self - President (archive footage)

Jake Tapper

as Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage)

Jay Carney

as Self - White House Press Secretary (archive footage)

Lucy Dalglish

as Herself - Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland

James Risen

as Self - New York Times (archive footage)

Chelsea Manning

as Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)

John Kiriakou

as Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)

Glenn Greenwald

as Self - Journalist, The Guardian

Shannon Bream

as Self - Fox News Anchor (archive footage)

Stephen Vladeck

as Self - American University Washington College of Law (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

as Self (archive footage)

Pierre Sprey

as Self - Weapons Designer and Analyst