A Good American: 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 two thousand and two the program immediately found the terrorists. This is the story of former Technical director of...
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