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.

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  Daniel Ellsberg

  Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
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  Seymour Hersh

  Self - Journalist
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  Joe Biden

  Self - Vice President (archive footage)
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  Robert Gates

  Self - Former Secretary of Defense
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  Thomas Drake

  Self - Whistleblower
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  Barack Obama

  Self - President (archive footage)
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  Jake Tapper

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

  Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
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  John Kiriakou

  Self - Whistleblower (archive footage)
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  Glenn Greenwald

  Self - Journalist, The Guardian