| Title | : | A Good American |
|---|---|---|
| Release | : | 2015 |
| Rating | : | 7.5 |
| Language | : | English, German |
| Runtime | : | 100 |
| Genre | : | Biography,Documentary,History,Thriller |
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.
Friedrich Moser, Friedrich Moser (author)
