A Good American: Behind a Government Surveillance Program - documentary

A Good American: Behind a Government Surveillance Program (2015)
Documentary discussion

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, long-time National Security Agency analyst, and Technical Director. He 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 it?

Winner of the Amnesty International Award Special Mention at the Millenium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival.

Available on Kanopy and other streaming services.