War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

Movie

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.

Date: 04/19/2013

Rating: 7.8

Cast: Daniel Ellsberg, Franz Gayl, Seymour Hersh, David Carr, Sharon Weinberger, Tom Vanden Brook, Danielle Brian, Conchita Gayl, Joe Biden, Robert Gates, Ben Freeman, Winslow Wheeler, William Hartung, Pete Sepp, Dana Priest, Michael Isikoff, Thomas Drake, Michael DeKort, Thomas Tamm, Jane Mayer, Tom Devine, Bill Keller, Eric Lipton, Kate Bohner, Jesselyn Radack, J. William Leonard, Steven Aftergood, Barack Obama, Jake Tapper, Jay Carney, Lucy Dalglish, James Risen, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou, Glenn Greenwald, Shannon Bream, Stephen Vladeck, Richard Nixon, Pierre Sprey

Daniel Ellsberg