War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2024)

2024

Documentary

8 from 10 with total 5 votes

2013-04-19

53 minutes

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.

Daniel Ellsberg character Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower

Franz Gayl character Self - Whistleblower

Seymour Hersh character Self - Journalist

David Carr character Self - Journalist, New York Times

Sharon Weinberger character Self - National Security Reporter

Tom Vanden Brook character Self - Journalist, USA Today

Danielle Brian character Self - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight

Conchita Gayl character Self - Franz Gayl's Wife

Joe Biden character Self - Vice President (archive footage)

Robert Gates character Self - Former Secretary of Defense

Ben Freeman character Self - National Security Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight

Winslow Wheeler character Self - Director of the Straus Military Reform Project

William Hartung character Self - Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy

Pete Sepp character Self - Executive Vice President for National Taxpayers Union

Dana Priest character Self - Investigative Reporter, Washington Post

Michael Isikoff character Self - National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News

Thomas Drake character Self - Whistleblower

Michael DeKort character Self - Whistleblower

Thomas Tamm character Self - Whistleblower

Jane Mayer character Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Tom Devine character Self - Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project

Bill Keller character Self - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times

Eric Lipton character Self - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times

Kate Bohner character Self - KBTV Video Blog

Jesselyn Radack character Self - Director of National Security and Human Rights, Government Accountability Project

J. William Leonard character Self - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office

Steven Aftergood character Himself - Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, The Federation of American Scientists

Barack Obama character Self - President (archive footage)

Jake Tapper character Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage)

Jay Carney character Self - White House Press Secretary (archive footage)

Lucy Dalglish character Herself - Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland

James Risen character Self - New York Times (archive footage)

Chelsea Manning character Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)

John Kiriakou character Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)

Glenn Greenwald character Self - Journalist, The Guardian

Shannon Bream character Self - Fox News Anchor (archive footage)

Stephen Vladeck character Self - American University Washington College of Law (archive footage)

Richard Nixon character Self (archive footage)

Pierre Sprey character Self - Weapons Designer and Analyst