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.
Genres
Cast
Daniel Ellsberg
Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Seymour Hersh
Self - Journalist
Joe Biden
Self - Vice President (archive footage)
Robert Gates
Self - Former Secretary of Defense
Thomas Drake
Self - Whistleblower
Barack Obama
Self - President (archive footage)
Jake Tapper
Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage)
Chelsea Manning
Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
John Kiriakou
Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
Glenn Greenwald
Self - Journalist, The Guardian
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)