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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)
Directed by Robert Greenwald
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.
Length 53 minutes
Actors
Richard Nixon | Barack Obama | Daniel Ellsberg | David Carr | Tom Devine | Thomas Drake | John Kiriakou | Jesselyn Radack | Glenn Greenwald | Chelsea Manning | James Risen | Franz Gayl | Seymour Hersh | 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 | Michael DeKort | Thomas Tamm | Jane Mayer | Bill Keller | Eric Lipton | Kate Bohner | J. William Leonard | Steven Aftergood | Jake Tapper | Jay Carney | Lucy Dalglish | Shannon Bream | Stephen Vladeck | Pierre Sprey