| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Robert Greenwald | Crew | Directing | Director |
 Daniel Ellsberg | Cast | Actor | Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower |
 Jane Mayer | Cast | Self - Staff Writer, The New Yorker | |
Jay Carney | Cast | Self - White House Press Secretary (archive footage) | |
 Joe Biden | Cast | Actor | Self - Vice President (archive footage) |
 Richard Nixon | Cast | Actor | Self (archive footage) |
 Barack Obama | Cast | Actor | Self - President (archive footage) |
Dana Priest | Cast | Self - Investigative Reporter, Washington Post | |
Danielle Brian | Cast | Self - Executive Director at Project On Government Oversight | |
Eric Lipton | Cast | Self - Investigative Reporter, The New York Times | |
 Jake Tapper | Cast | Self - Chief Washington Correspondent, CNN (archive footage) | |
James Risen | Cast | Self - New York Times (archive footage) | |
Michael Isikoff | Cast | Self - National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News | |
 Robert Gates | Cast | Actor | Self - Former Secretary of Defense |
 Seymour Hersh | Cast | Actor | Self - Journalist |
Shannon Bream | Cast | Self - Fox News Anchor (archive footage) | |
William Hartung | Cast | Self - Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy | |
Bill Keller | Cast | Self - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times | |
David Carr | Cast | Self - Journalist, New York Times | |
 John Kiriakou | Cast | Self - Whistleblower (archive footage) | |
Sharon Weinberger | Cast | Self - National Security Reporter | |
Winslow Wheeler | Cast | Self - Director of the Straus Military Reform Project | |
 Glenn Greenwald | Cast | Actor | Self - Journalist, The Guardian |
Pete Sepp | Cast | Self - Executive Vice President for National Taxpayers Union | |
Pierre Sprey | Cast | Self - Weapons Designer and Analyst | |
Tom Devine | Cast | Self - Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project | |
 Chelsea Manning | Cast | Actress | Self - Whistleblower (archive footage) |
Jesselyn Radack | Cast | Self - Director of National Security and Human Rights, Government Accountability Project | |
Michael DeKort | Cast | Self - Whistleblower | |
Steven Aftergood | Cast | Himself - Director of the Project on Government Secrecy, The Federation of American Scientists | |
 Thomas Drake | Cast | Self - Whistleblower | |
Thomas Tamm | Cast | Self - Whistleblower | |
Ben Freeman | Cast | Self - National Security Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight | |
Conchita Gayl | Cast | Self - Franz Gayl's Wife | |
Franz Gayl | Cast | Self - Whistleblower | |
J. William Leonard | Cast | Self - Former Director of the Information Security Oversight Office | |
Kate Bohner | Cast | Self - KBTV Video Blog | |
Lucy Dalglish | Cast | Herself - Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland | |
Stephen Vladeck | Cast | Self - American University Washington College of Law (archive footage) | |
Tom Vanden Brook | Cast | Self - Journalist, USA Today | |
| Person | Type | Job | Role(s) |
