Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, February 3:
A GOOD AMERICAN
Director:
Frederich Moser
Premiere:
CPH:DOX 2015
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Palm Springs, Rotterdam, Portland, Sedona, Diagonale, Movies That Matter, Cleveland, RiverRun, DOXA, Docs Against Gravity, Biografilm, Dokufest
About:
The little-known story of how the NSA abandoned an effective intelligence-gathering system before the 9/11 attacks.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
The explosion of information in the digital age left government agencies like the NSA struggling with bureaucracy and technology to keep up with the changing times. Responding to the challenge, NSA technical director Bill Binney and a small team of codebreakers develop ThinThread, an astonishingly effective data collecting and sorting program that also protects privacy. Despite its success, ThinThread is discontinued just weeks before September 11, 2001. After Binney and fellow intelligence officials challenge this decision, they find their world upended.
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