War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Documentary
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.
2013-04-19
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Cast
Director
Robert Greenwald
Daniel Ellsberg as Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Seymour Hersh as Self - Journalist
Joe Biden as Self - Vice President (archive footage)
Robert Gates as Self - Former Secretary of Defense
Thomas Drake as Self - Whistleblower
Barack Obama as Self - President (archive footage)
Jake Tapper as Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage)
Chelsea Manning as Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
John Kiriakou as Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
Glenn Greenwald as Self - Journalist, The Guardian
Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage)