War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
2013War 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.
Acted in
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
William Hartung
as Self - Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy
Pete Sepp
as Self - Executive Vice President for National Taxpayers Union
Dana Priest
as Self - Investigative Reporter, Washington Post
Michael Isikoff
as Self - National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News
Thomas Drake
as Self - Whistleblower
Michael DeKort
as Self - Whistleblower
Thomas Tamm
as Self - Whistleblower
Jane Mayer
as Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Tom Devine
as Self - Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project
Bill Keller
as Self - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Eric Lipton
as Self - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times
Kate Bohner
as Self - KBTV Video Blog
Jesselyn Radack
as Self - Director of National Security and Human Rights, Government Accountability Project
J. William Leonard
as Self - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office
Steven Aftergood
as Himself - Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, The Federation of American Scientists
Barack Obama
as Self - President (archive footage)
Jake Tapper
as Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage)
Jay Carney
as Self - White House Press Secretary (archive footage)
Lucy Dalglish
as Herself - Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
James Risen
as Self - New York Times (archive footage)
Chelsea Manning
as Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
John Kiriakou
as Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
Glenn Greenwald
as Self - Journalist, The Guardian
Shannon Bream
as Self - Fox News Anchor (archive footage)
Stephen Vladeck
as Self - American University Washington College of Law (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Sprey
as Self - Weapons Designer and Analyst