J. William Leonard

J. William Leonard

Movies for J. William Leonard...

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Title: We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
Character: Self - U.S. Government Classification Czar
Released: May 24, 2013
Type: Movie
Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way democratic societies deal with privacy, secrecy, and the right to information, perhaps for generations to come. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is an extensive examination of all things related to WikiLeaks and the larger global debate over access to information.
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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Title: War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Character: Self - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: Movie
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.