A Good American 2015

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IMDB Rating : 7.4

FD Smart Rating : 7.4

Synopsis : This documentary reveals the truth about an NSA cryptologist whose innovative surveillance program was eliminated just weeks before the 9/11 attacks.

Regions Available ( 6 ) :
Canada , Puerto Rico , United States , Greece , South Africa , Vietnam

Actors:

Bill Binney , William Binney , Thomas Drake , Edward Loomis , Jesselyn Radack

Creators:

Friedrich Moser

Languages:

English [Original] , English

Subtitles:

French , English , Spanish

Genres:

Documentary, Biography, History, Thriller

Release Date:

2015

Run Time:

1h40m

Maturity Rating:

Recommended for ages 13 and up

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.