A Good American 1080 (2015)

A Good American: A Good American tells the story of the best codebreaker 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 realtime 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 testrun of the program against the pre9, 11NSA 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.