A Good American
2015
A Good American
- Release: 2017 ( 03 Feb 2017 )
- Genre: ✯ Biography ✯ Documentary ✯ History ✯ Thriller
- Language: English
- Country: Austria
- Runtime: 100 mins
- Rating: 7
- Quality: ✯ 1080P Bluray ✯ 1080P WebRip ✯ 720P Bluray ✯ 720P WebRip
* WebRip: same quality as BluRay, but ripped earlier from a streaming service
Plot summary
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.
Writer :
Friedrich Moser, Friedrich Moser (author)
Actors : William Binney| Jesselyn Radack| Kirk Wiebe| Diane Roark|