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.

Cast:

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