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

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.

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Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg

as Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower

as Self - Whistleblower

as Self - Journalist

as Self - Journalist, New York Times

Sharon Weinberger

Sharon Weinberger

as Self - National Security Reporter

Tom Vanden Brook

Tom Vanden Brook

as Self - Journalist, USA Today

as Self - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight

as Self - Franz Gayl's Wife

as Self - Vice President (archive footage)

as Self - Former Secretary of Defense

as Self - National Security Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight

Winslow Wheeler

Winslow Wheeler

as Self - Director of the Straus Military Reform Project

William Hartung

William Hartung

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

as Self - Executive Vice President for National Taxpayers Union

as Self - Investigative Reporter, Washington Post

Michael Isikoff

Michael Isikoff

as Self - National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News

as Self - Whistleblower

as Self - Whistleblower

as Self - Whistleblower

as Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker

as Self - Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project

as Self - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times

as Self - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times

as Self - KBTV Video Blog

Jesselyn Radack

Jesselyn Radack

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

J. William Leonard

J. William Leonard

as Self - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office

Steven Aftergood

Steven Aftergood

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

as Self - President (archive footage)

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

as Self - White House Press Secretary (archive footage)

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

as Self - New York Times (archive footage)

Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning

as Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)

as Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)

Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald

as Self - Journalist, The Guardian

as Self - Fox News Anchor (archive footage)

Stephen Vladeck

Stephen Vladeck

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

as Self (archive footage)

as Self - Weapons Designer and Analyst

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Robert Greenwald

Robert Greenwald

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