An upcoming film will address the war on whistleblowers. Robert Greenwald’s new film, featuring interviews with Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Jane Mayer, Seymour Hersh, Dana Priest, and many more activists and investigative journalists, will focus on the recent wave of crackdowns on those who blow the whistle on abuse and corruption, including Pfc. Bradley Manning. Watch the trailer here:

Kevin Gosztola argues in The Nation that Bradley Manning is a classic whistleblower. In an article entitled, Bradley Manning Tried to Warn Us About the Crisis In Iraq. Will We Listen to Him Now?, Gosztola writes that while the establishment media largely focused on Manning’s personal issues, they should have covered what he actually revealed, and why it’s so significant.

He concludes:

Manning is not a leaker. He is a whistleblower who disobeyed military codes and US law governing the handling of classified information. He has pled guilty and accepted responsibility for his acts of civil disobedience. But the Obama administration has an interest in casting him as a leaker, having prosecuted a record number of other “leakers” and also fought to keep an increasing amount of information it claims is sensitive to “national security” secret. It has failed to address the problem of over-classification while at the same time clamping down on the free flow of information between government employees and members of the press.

If the Manning case is seen as part of a larger trend toward reestablishing—and even expanding—the ability to protect state secrecy, it becomes clear that his prosecution is not simply about a soldier acting on decisions he did not have the authority to make. It is about whether Americans are going to allow the government to persecute an individual because he or she had the courage and audacity to reveal corruption that government officials wished to keep hidden out of sight. Manning wished to warn Americans of the unseen consequences of a dangerous foreign policy. Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, it is clear that he was right.

As we wrote yesterday, almost none of those reflecting on the tenth anniversary of Iraq have mentioned that it was a cable released by Manning and published by WikiLeaks that helped speed up the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

Finally, Democracy Now’s full show today explores the Guardian/BBC Arabic investigation, using WikiLeaks-released Iraq war logs, which Manning released. The investigation found new links between U.S. General David Petraeus and secret Iraqi torture centers.