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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

53 minutes

Year:

2013

Director:

Robert Greenwald

Cast:

Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower

Self - Whistleblower

Self - Journalist

Self - Journalist, New York Times

Self - National Security Reporter

Crew:

Director