War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

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.

Documentary

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)

William Hartung

(Self - Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy)

Pete Sepp

(Self - Executive Vice President for National Taxpayers Union)

Dana Priest

(Self - Investigative Reporter, Washington Post)

Michael Isikoff

(Self - National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News)

Thomas Drake

(Self - Whistleblower)

Michael DeKort

(Self - Whistleblower)

Thomas Tamm

(Self - Whistleblower)

Jane Mayer

(Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker)

Tom Devine

(Self - Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project)

Bill Keller

(Self - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times)

Eric Lipton

(Self - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times)

Kate Bohner

(Self - KBTV Video Blog)

Jesselyn Radack

(Self - Director of National Security and Human Rights, Government Accountability Project)

J. William Leonard

(Self - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office)

Steven Aftergood

(Himself - Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, The Federation of American Scientists)

Barack Obama

(Self - President (archive footage))

Jake Tapper

(Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage))

Jay Carney

(Self - White House Press Secretary (archive footage))

Lucy Dalglish

(Herself - Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland)

James Risen

(Self - New York Times (archive footage))

Chelsea Manning

(Self - Whistleblower (archive footage))

John Kiriakou

(Self - Whistleblower (archive footage))

Glenn Greenwald

(Self - Journalist, The Guardian)

Shannon Bream

(Self - Fox News Anchor (archive footage))

Stephen Vladeck

(Self - American University Washington College of Law (archive footage))

Richard Nixon

(Self (archive footage))

Pierre Sprey

(Self - Weapons Designer and Analyst)