A Good American
Directed by: Friedrich Moser Release Date: March 2018 (Educational) Year of Production: 2015 Running Time: 100 min Language: English Digital Site License includes English Closed Captions Subjects: Technology, American Studies FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OLIVER STONE "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. Before Edward Snowden, there was Bill Binney... Bill Binney was a brilliant cryptologist, long-time National Security Agency (NSA) 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