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A Good American

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Austria · 2015
1h 40m
Director Friedrich Moser
Starring William Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Loomis, Jesselyn Radack
Genre Documentary

William Binney, former National Security Agency official and whistleblower, is profiled in this documentary. Through interviews with Binney -- who created a groundbreaking surveillance tool that may have predicted the 9/11 attacks -- the film delves into the elusive world of national security in America.

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Village Voice by Daphne Howland

The movie is slow, quiet, and infuriating, as Binney and his small group are undermined by Gen. Michael Hayden's NSA and inept private contractors.

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Variety by Nick Schager

If the doc’s ultimate argument is less than wholly persuasive, A Good American nonetheless paints a fascinating picture of Binney’s mind, and the way in which he first envisioned ThinThread as a giant neural network-like globe filled with graphically linked nodes.

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Time Out London by Tom Huddleston

The picture it paints of America’s frontline intelligence services – confused, internally quarrelsome and completely in hock to corporate interests – is fascinating.

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