A Good American (2016)

Directors

Friedrich Moser

Cast

Diane Roark, Ed Loomis, J.Kirk Wiebe, Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Andrews Drake, William Edward Binney

The story

The film consists mainly of interviews with Binney and other former NSA officials and congressional staffers, as well as reenactments. By way of background information, Binney describes how he entered government service during the Vietnam War, and over time, using antiquated computer systems, created ThinThread, which he and the other officials describe as less intrusive than Trailblazer, which was lacking the privacy safeguards built into ThinThread. According to Binney, not only was Trailblazer unnecessarily intrusive, it was less effective.

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