War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
19/04/2013
1h 6m
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 Ellsberg
Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Franz Gayl
Self - Whistleblower
Seymour Hersh
Self - Journalist
David Carr
Self - Journalist, New York Times
Sharon Weinberger
Self - National Security Reporter
Tom Vanden Brook
Self - Journalist, USA Today
Danielle Brian
Self - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight
Conchita Gayl
Self - Franz Gayl's Wife
Joe Biden
Self - Vice President (archive footage)
Robert Gates
Self - Former Secretary of Defense
Ben Freeman
Self - National Security Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight
Winslow Wheeler
Self - Director of the Straus Military Reform Project
William Hartung
Self - Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy
Pete Sepp
Self - Executive Vice President for National Taxpayers Union
Dana Priest
Self - Investigative Reporter, Washington Post
Michael Isikoff
Self - National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News
Thomas Drake
Self - Whistleblower
Michael DeKort
Self - Whistleblower
Thomas Tamm
Self - Whistleblower
Jane Mayer
Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Tom Devine
Self - Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project
Bill Keller
Self - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Eric Lipton
Self - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times
Kate Bohner
Self - KBTV Video Blog
Jesselyn Radack
Self - Director of National Security and Human Rights, Government Accountability Project
J. William Leonard
Self - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office
Steven Aftergood
Himself - Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, The Federation of American Scientists
Barack Obama
Self - President (archive footage)
Jake Tapper
Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage)
Jay Carney
Self - White House Press Secretary (archive footage)
Lucy Dalglish
Herself - Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
James Risen
Self - New York Times (archive footage)
Chelsea Manning
Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
John Kiriakou
Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
Glenn Greenwald
Self - Journalist, The Guardian
Shannon Bream
Self - Fox News Anchor (archive footage)
Stephen Vladeck
Self - American University Washington College of Law (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Pierre Sprey
Self - Weapons Designer and Analyst
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