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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

(2013)

April 19, 2013 1h 6m
78%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Robert Greenwald

Director

Top Billed Cast

DE

Daniel Ellsberg

Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower

FG

Franz Gayl

Self - Whistleblower

SH

Seymour Hersh

Self - Journalist

DC

David Carr

Self - Journalist, New York Times

SW

Sharon Weinberger

Self - National Security Reporter

TVB

Tom Vanden Brook

Self - Journalist, USA Today

DB

Danielle Brian

Self - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight

CG

Conchita Gayl

Self - Franz Gayl's Wife

JB

Joe Biden

Self - Vice President (archive footage)

RG

Robert Gates

Self - Former Secretary of Defense

Official Trailer