War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

The story

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 & crew

Daniel EllsbergSelf - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower

Franz Gayl

Franz GaylSelf - Whistleblower

Seymour HershSelf - Journalist

David Carr

David CarrSelf - Journalist, New York Times

Sharon Weinberger

Sharon WeinbergerSelf - National Security Reporter

Tom Vanden Brook

Tom Vanden BrookSelf - Journalist, USA Today

Danielle Brian

Danielle BrianSelf - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight

Conchita Gayl

Conchita GaylSelf - Franz Gayl's Wife

Joe BidenSelf - Vice President (archive footage)

Robert GatesSelf - Former Secretary of Defense

Ben Freeman

Ben FreemanSelf - National Security Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight

Winslow Wheeler

Winslow WheelerSelf - Director of the Straus Military Reform Project