A Good American (2015)
3.8 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 40min
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- Synopsis:
"A Good American" tells the story of the best code-breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth, filter it for targets and render results in real-time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution. The tool was perfect - except for one thing: it was way too cheap. Therefor NSA leadership, who had fallen into the hands of industry, dumped it - three weeks prior to 9/11. In a secret test-run of the program against the pre-9/11-NSA database in early 2002 the program immediately found the terrorists. This is the story of former Technical director of NSA, Bill Binney, and a program called Thin Thread. - Actors:
- William Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Loomis, Jesselyn Radack, Diane Roark, Tim Shorrock, Kirk Wiebe
- Directors:
- Friedrich Moser
- Writers:
- Friedrich Moser
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
- Countries:
- Austria
