威尔·莱曼

Will Lyman

饰：Himself - Narrator

Thomas Drake

饰：Himself - NSA senior executive, 2001-08

Barton Gellman

饰：Himself - The Washington Post & Frontline

乔治·W· 布什

George W. Bush

饰：Himself - President

Diane Roark

饰：Herself - Staff, House Intel. Cmte., 1985-02

Kirk Wiebe

饰：Himself - NSA Senior Analyst, 1975-01

格兰·格林沃德

Glenn Greenwald

饰：Self - The Guardian, 2012-13

James Bamford

James Bamford

饰：Self - Author, The Shaddow Factory

Edward Loomis

饰：Self - NSA Cryptologist, 1964-01

Andrew Card

饰：Self - White House Chief of Staff, 2001-06

Jane Mayer

饰：Self - The New Yorker

Porter Goss

饰：Self - Chair, House Intel. Cmte., 1997-04

洁西林·拉达克

Jesselyn Radack

饰：Self - Drake's Attorney

Richard Clarke

Richard Clarke

饰：Self - White House NSA Review Group, 2013

Matthew Olsen

饰：Self - Dir., Nat'l Counterterrorism Center

David Addington

饰：Self - Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney,(archive footage)

John Ashcroft

饰：Self - Former US Attorney General,(archive footage)

James Comey

饰：Self - Former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation,(archive footage)

劳拉·珀特拉斯

Laura Poitras

饰：Self - Documentary Filmmaker,(archive footage)

爱德华·斯诺登

Edward Snowden

饰：Self,(archive footage)

迈克尔·海登

Michael Hayden

饰：Self - NSA Director, 1999-05

罗恩·怀登

Ron Wyden

饰：Self - Senator, Oregon,(archive footage)

卢克·哈丁

Luke Harding

饰：Self - The Guardian

伊文·麦克阿斯基尔

Ewen MacAskill

饰：Self - The Guardian,(as Ewen Macaskill)

迪克·切尼

Dick Cheney

饰：Self - Vice President,(archive footage)

威廉·宾尼

William Binney

饰：Self - NSA Techincal Director, 1965-01

巴拉克·奥巴马

Barack Obama

饰：Self - President,(archive footage)

Ben Rhodes

饰：Self - Obama Dep. Nat'l Security Advisor

Eric Holder Jr.

饰：Self - Former U.S. Attorney General,(archive footage)

Robert S. Mueller III

饰：Self - FBI Director, 2001 to 2013,(archive footage) (as Robert S. Mueller III)

康多莉扎·赖斯

Condoleezza Rice

饰：Self - National Security Advisor,(archive footage)

Arthur Sulzberger

饰：Self - Publisher, The New York Times,(archive footage)