Posted on 09/11/2023 6:18:09 PM PDT by logi_cal869
"A Good American" is a gripping docu-thriller about a groundbreaking surveillance program, the brilliant mastermind behind it and how a perfect alternative to mass surveillance was killed by NSA-management for money – three weeks prior to 9/11.
Bill Binney was a brilliant cryptologist and long-time National Security Agency (NSA) analyst, since 1997 serving as Technical Director. Binney developed a sophisticated program named ThinThread for gathering data capable of providing clues, in real-time, of potential terrorist threats.
Built-in safeguards would have prevented the massive surveillance methods later exposed by Edward Snowden. Why was this program killed off? And who was behind that?
Friedrich Moser’s eye-opening and deeply disturbing documentary tells the complete story of Bill Binney and those, both inside the NSA and out, who backed ThinThread. A program that gathered data, lawfully, effectively, and more inexpensively, than the now discredited programs pursued by the US and EU governments.
It’s also a chilling account of those willing to go on the record and what happened to them when they tried to expose the truth. Could ThinThread have prevented 9/11? Very likely, as a test-run has shown, whose results are still classified to this day.
https://agoodamerican.org/film
Must-watch.
Thanks,
BFL
Bkmk
Thank you - it sounds interesting.
Reminds me of that tv show “Person of Interest” where the computer guy left the government(?) and created his own surveilance system that he wanted put to good use to help people.
The computer program would pick up an individual and then the guy and his ex-CIA associate would help them. Or - stop them. For some reason the computer didn’t know if the person needed help (saving a wife from a sadist husband) or if the person needed to be stopped (a mass killer).
The best part was this all-knowing and all-seeing system used payphones to transmit the information!
Bfl
Bkmrk
BKMK
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