War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
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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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Barack Obama
Himself - President (archive footage)
Shannon Bream
Herself - Fox News Anchor (archive footage)
Joe Biden
Self - Vice President (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Himself (archive footage)
Daniel Ellsberg
Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Jane Mayer
Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Jay Carney
Himself - White House Press Secretary (archive footage)
Eric Lipton
Himself - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times
Lucy Dalglish
Herself - Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
Steven Aftergood
Himself - Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, The Federation of American Scientists
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