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Maybe some of you have known about this but I haven't. Just watched this documentary this morning, enjoyable but frustrating. It's a sad insight into the intelligence operation at the NSA General Hayden oversaw. The very first part will give you a hint of the revelations that the rest of the documentary uncovers. I would comment more but you should see it first. A lot of new revelations for me and no it's not some 9/11 conspiracy documentary these are real ex NSA people putting themselves on the line in the film. It's on Netflix and others.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbVfub-L5Rs
IMDB 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.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbVfub-L5Rs
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