War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)

Name: War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Director: Robert Greenwald
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-04-19
Duration: 1 h 6 min
Cast: Daniel Ellsberg, Franz Gayl, Seymour Hersh, David Carr

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Director: Robert Greenwald

Cast: Daniel Ellsberg, Franz Gayl, Seymour Hersh, David Carr

Runtime66 min

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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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Fans of insightful documentaries and investigative journalism will appreciate director Robert Greenwald's 2013 film 'War on Whistleblowers', which shines a light on the vital role whistleblowers play in exposing government wrongdoing and the increasing threats they face in the modern 'national security state'.

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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State is a 66-minute documentary by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation, released in 2013.