War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)

Summary

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.

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Cast
Crew

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