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Film / 2013
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Directed by
Robert Greenwald
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, …
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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.
Cast
Daniel EllsbergSelf - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Franz GaylSelf - Whistleblower
Seymour HershSelf - Journalist
David CarrSelf - Journalist, New York Times
Sharon WeinbergerSelf - National Security Reporter
Tom Vanden BrookSelf - Journalist, USA Today
Danielle BrianSelf - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight
Conchita GaylSelf - Franz Gayl's Wife
Joe BidenSelf - Vice President (archive footage)
Robert GatesSelf - Former Secretary of Defense
Ben FreemanSelf - National Security Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight
Winslow WheelerSelf - Director of the Straus Military Reform Project
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William HartungSelf - Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy
Pete SeppSelf - Executive Vice President for National Taxpayers Union
Dana PriestSelf - Investigative Reporter, Washington Post
Michael IsikoffSelf - National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News
Thomas DrakeSelf - Whistleblower
Michael DeKortSelf - Whistleblower
Thomas TammSelf - Whistleblower
Jane MayerSelf - Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Tom DevineSelf - Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project
Bill KellerSelf - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Eric LiptonSelf - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times
Kate BohnerSelf - KBTV Video Blog
Jesselyn RadackSelf - Director of National Security and Human Rights, Government Accountability Project
J. William LeonardSelf - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office
Steven AftergoodHimself - Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, The Federation of American Scientists
Barack ObamaSelf - President (archive footage)
Jake TapperSelf - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage)
Jay CarneySelf - White House Press Secretary (archive footage)
Lucy DalglishHerself - Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
James RisenSelf - New York Times (archive footage)
Chelsea ManningSelf - Whistleblower (archive footage)
John KiriakouSelf - Whistleblower (archive footage)
Glenn GreenwaldSelf - Journalist, The Guardian
Shannon BreamSelf - Fox News Anchor (archive footage)
Stephen VladeckSelf - American University Washington College of Law (archive footage)
Richard NixonSelf (archive footage)
Pierre SpreySelf - Weapons Designer and Analyst
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