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.
Barack Obama
Self - President (archive footage)Tom Vanden Brook
Self - Journalist, USA TodayJoe Biden
Self - Vice President (archive footage)Thomas Drake
Self - WhistleblowerRichard Nixon
Self (archive footage)Jake Tapper
Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage)David Carr
Self - Journalist, New York TimesDaniel Ellsberg
Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower