War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (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.
- Released
- 2013-04-19
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 66 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Robert Greenwald
- TMDB rating
- 7.8/10 from 8 votes
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
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