BRAVE NEW FILMS – In The Media

On May 14th, 2013 Robert Greenwald was a guest on CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper to discuss the film War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State. 

On Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 Robert Greenwald joined Ed Schultz on The Ed Schultz Radio show to discuss the unprecedented seizure of the Associated Press' phone records.  

By Ernest Hardy at the Village Voice.

You don't have to be a rightwing wacko or naive lefty to be chilled by some policies and practices of the Obama administration. Nothing illustrates that better than the administration's treatment of whistleblowers who take on the federal government

By Susan Armitage at the Columbia Journalism Review.

In 2007, Franz Gayl, a civilian Marine Corps science advisor, went public with concerns about delays delivering armored vehicles requested by troops in Iraq. His revelations contributed to stories (like this one) in USA Today examining how equipment shortages put soldiers at risk. As a result of speaking out, Gayl’s security clearances were suspended and he was placed on administrative leave.

By Katrina vanden Heuvel at the Washington Post.

Next week marks the 10th anniversary of an event that celebrates truth telling in the public interest and honors the legacy of Ron Ridenhour, a man not often remembered, who irreversibly changed the course of history.

By Kevin Gosztola at Firedoglake.

In a small auditorium at the Newseum in Washington, DC, Brave New Films director Robert Greenwald held the premiere of his new documentary, “War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State.” It features four stories of men who are clear examples of whistleblowers that most Americans would think deserve protection when exposing government corruption, misconduct or wrongdoing, however, officials chose to protect the National Security State and retaliate each of these men for speaking out.

By Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars. 

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It's right there in our First Amendment to the Constitution, the right of such primacy that it supersedes all others: freedom of the press.

By Margaret Sullivan at the New York Times. 

When Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, resigned from his post, protesting the torture of prisoners there and political interference that deterred his work, he says he was subjected to a gag order by the Bush administration.

By Joe Davidson at The Washington Post. 

The Obama administration’s approach to federal whistleblowers has been likened to “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

On the good doctor’s side, President Obama has important accomplishments in protecting the rights of whistleblowers. Yet whistleblower advocates are fuming at the administration’s actions against federal employees whom it considers to be leakers of national security information.

By Joe Newman at Huffington Post

In Robert Greenwald's new documentary, War on Whistleblowers, Marine Corps senior science advisor Franz Gayl says his decision to speak out in 2007 came down to a simple question: