War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Documentary
Release Date
April 19, 2013
Duration
66 min
Status
Released
Language
en
Overview
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.
Casts
Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Daniel Ellsberg
Self - Whistleblower
Franz Gayl
Self - Journalist
Seymour Hersh
Self - Journalist, New York Times
David Carr
Self - National Security Reporter
Sharon Weinberger
Self - Journalist, USA Today
Tom Vanden Brook
Self - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight
Danielle Brian
Self - Franz Gayl's Wife
Conchita Gayl
Self - Vice President (archive footage)
Joe Biden
Self - Former Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates
Self - National Security Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight
Ben Freeman
Self - Director of the Straus Military Reform Project
Winslow Wheeler
Self - Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy
William Hartung
Self - Executive Vice President for National Taxpayers Union
Pete Sepp
Self - Investigative Reporter, Washington Post
Dana Priest
Self - National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News
Michael Isikoff
Self - Whistleblower
Thomas Drake
Self - Whistleblower
Michael DeKort
Self - Whistleblower
Thomas Tamm
Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Jane Mayer
Self - Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project
Tom Devine
Self - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Bill Keller
Self - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times
Eric Lipton
Self - KBTV Video Blog
Kate Bohner
Self - Director of National Security and Human Rights, Government Accountability Project
Jesselyn Radack
Self - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office
J. William Leonard
Himself - Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, The Federation of American Scientists
Steven Aftergood
Self - President (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage)
Jake Tapper
Self - White House Press Secretary (archive footage)
Jay Carney
Herself - Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
Lucy Dalglish
Self - New York Times (archive footage)
James Risen
Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
Chelsea Manning
Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
John Kiriakou
Self - Journalist, The Guardian
Glenn Greenwald
Self - Fox News Anchor (archive footage)
Shannon Bream
Self - American University Washington College of Law (archive footage)
Stephen Vladeck
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self - Weapons Designer and Analyst
Pierre Sprey
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