War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

2013 · 66 min · ★ 7.8 · Documentary

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.

Directed by Robert Greenwald

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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

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