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