War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)

7.8/10 66 min Documentary

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.

Cast

Daniel Ellsberg

Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower

Seymour Hersh

Self - Journalist

Joe Biden

Self - Vice President (archive footage)

Robert Gates

Self - Former Secretary of Defense

Thomas Drake

Self - Whistleblower

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