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... (Full plot summary below)
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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 ThinThread.
Leave your thoughts about A Good American.
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferPrepare to be riveted by this equally enraging, terrifying and eye-opening documentary. |
| tonymacklin.netTony MacklinA Good American is a documentary against the war on truth. |
| Total FilmStephen KellyA sensational claim, but it lacks hard evidence or opposing perspectives. |
| Little White LiesLauren ThompsonA decent documentary that will leave you wondering why more wasn't made of this scandal. |
| User ReviewMolly CEye-opening and worth watching! A documentary that pulls back the curtains on the NSA. |
| User ReviewTimm SIt Just Leaves You Wondering Why Risk America & The Free-World For Money?? But I Guess Sensible Smarts Is Often Overun By Money Linked To Power. It's So Troubling To See Such Things Play Out Time & Again. Executive Producer; Oliver Stone, Does Well To Present A Story From Those Whom Possibly Could Have Helped Prevent Things Going So Wrong..But Now That They're Ousted?? Where To From Here? It's Troubling & Disheartening All At Once. |
| User ReviewGareth DA really interesting look at ThinThread and some of the politics surrounding it. |
