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Virginia Tech Collegiate Times
February 17, 2018
This movie is about NSA analyst and cryptologist Bill Binney. During his work for the NSA as technical director, Binney created a complex program called ThinThread that could uncover information, data and clues about future terrorist attacks. However, his data and programs were eliminated just weeksÃÂ ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
December 8, 2017
As his distinguished career with the NSA progressed, he would begin to combine these skills with the evolution of the digital age. .... developing the extension, the digital extension of understanding these patterns that would have come, this program ThinThread, and yet because it wasn't expensive enough,ÃÂ ...
Cato Institute (blog)
December 8, 2017
I've had lots of requests for a non-Scribd link to the 2004 DoD IG report on the THINTHREAD and TRAILBLAZER programs I mentioned in my JustSecurity.org ... I should point out that at the end of the excellent documentary on this topic, A Good American, the film's creators noted that Hayden, NSA's SignalÃÂ ...
Cato Institute (blog)
December 7, 2017
In April 2000, Hayden's message to the NSA workforce made it clear that any NSA employees who went to Congress to suggest a better way for the NSA to do business would face his wrath. Even so, the THINTHREAD team pressed on, managing to get their system deployed to at least one NSA site in aÃÂ ...
Just Security
December 7, 2017
In April 2000, Hayden's message to the NSA workforce made it clear that any NSA employees who went to Congress to suggest a better way for the NSA to do business would face his wrath. Even so, the THINTHREAD team pressed on, managing to get their system deployed to at least one NSA site in aÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
November 28, 2017
The former US National Security Agency, NSA, employee William Binney smiles behind water bottles as he waits for his questioning by the German .... As the film depicts, Thin Thread fell victim to the ambitions of NSA Director Michael Hayden, who had been an Air Force General prior to heading the NSA.
Sputnik International
November 8, 2017
William Edward Binney is a 30-year veteran of the National Security Agency who resigned from his position there on October 31, 2001, in frustration and ... of Inspector General over NSA's fateful decision to continue a program dubbed "Trailblazer" over the program Binney had worked on, "ThinThread.".
Lawfare (blog)
September 6, 2017
One of the most important revelations following the disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was the inadequate oversight of highly ... This program incorporated portions of an earlier NSA program, known as ThinThread, but with its privacy protections stripped out.
The American Conservative
August 2, 2017
By the end of October 2001, the original THINTHREAD development team had left NSA, motivated to leave upon learning that key THINTHREAD ... As a result, the National Security Agency is inefficiently using resources to develop a digital network exploitation system that is not capable of fully exploitingÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 7, 2017
His phone calls, everything he did electronically, was being monitored," Bill Binney, a 36-year veteran of the National Security Agency who resigned in ... He "became a whistleblower after discovering that elements of a data-monitoring program he had helped develop -- nicknamed ThinThread -- wereÃÂ ...
Just Security
March 2, 2017
The film tells the tale of a small group of National Security Agency employees who, prior to 9/11 developed a revolutionary intelligence collection and ... The THINTHREAD core team consisted of NSA's leading crypto-mathematician, William Binney; analyst Kirk Wiebe; and computer whiz Ed Loomis.
The Intercept
February 10, 2017
In 2010, Thomas Drake, a former senior employee at the National Security Agency, was charged with espionage for speaking to a reporter from the ... “Bulk acquisition doesn't work,” agrees Kirk Wiebe, a former NSA senior analyst, who was trying to help convince NSA of ThinThread's value at the time.
NYU Washington Square News
February 1, 2017
Following Edward Snowden's exposure of the National Security Agency's global and domestic surveillance programs, people have begun to pose more ... Bill Binney, the documentary's protagonist, is a former NSA official who utilized his unrivaled mathematical abilities to create ThinThread, a program thatÃÂ ...
ZDNet
November 21, 2015
ThinThread was a program developed by a small team of people in NSA headed by Binney -- including would-be whistleblowers Kirk Wiebe and Ed Loomis. The program took the world's metadata -- from phone calls to geolocation, who is talking to whom and when -- and digested it to dig up connectionsÃÂ ...
Sri Lanka Guardian
March 9, 2017
( March 10, 2017 Boston, Sri Lanka Guardian) A 36-year veteran of America's Intelligence Community, William Binney resigned from his position as Director for Global Communications Intelligence (COMINT) at the National Security Agency (NSA) and blew the ...
La Provincia di Varese
March 8, 2017
Tre proiezioni in due giorni nella sala di Filmstudio90 di via De Cristoforis che propone in prima visione "A good american", l'avvincente docu-thriller di Friedrich Moser (autore anche di Snowden) e co-prodotto da Oliver Stone (domani ore 16 e 21 e ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 7, 2017
His phone calls, everything he did electronically, was being monitored," Bill Binney, a 36-year veteran of the National Security Agency who resigned in protest from the organization in 2001, told Fox Business on Monday. Everyone's conversations are ...
Just Security
February 13, 2017
Former CIA analyst Pat Eddington is trying to prove right NSA whistleblowers who spoke out about the ThinThread intelligence program by suing the Defense Department, Jenna McLaughlin writes at The Intercept.
Salon
February 3, 2017
When Bill Binney, former NSA analyst and head of the anti-terror ThinThread metadata program sits in front of you and says he is not afraid of the government, you have to admire him.
New York Times
February 2, 2017
That's according to William E. Binney, a former technical director at the National Security Agency and the principal subject of this film.
NYU Washington Square News
February 1, 2017
Following Edward Snowden's exposure of the National Security Agency's global and domestic surveillance programs, people have begun to pose more questions about government agencies' secrecy and deceptive practices.
Yahoo Movies (blog)
January 25, 2017
Bill Binney was a brilliant cryptologist and long-time National Security Agency (NSA) analyst, since 1997 serving as Technical Director.
PBS NewsHour
December 10, 2016
STEWART: Let's talk about all the agencies. The CIA has weighed in. The director of the NSA, Admiral Rogers told the "Wall Street Journal" last month about WikiLeaks that, quote, "It was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a ...
Middle East Online
November 28, 2016
Take thecase of Thomas Drake, a former senior National Security Agency executive who in 2007 went public about waste and wanton expenditure within the agency, asI wrote way back in 2011.
Süddeutsche.de
November 6, 2016
Im Zentrum des Films steht die Geschichte des Kryptologen und ehemaligen NSA-Mitarbeiters William Binney (Credit: Blue+Green Communication). Seit den ... Er entwickelte das Datensammlungs- und Analyseprogramm ThinThread. Das Programm sollteÃÂ ...
The Intercept
October 27, 2016
The subsequent investigation validated the allegations of the NSA ThinThread team. But in spite of this vindication, all who had filed the complaint were subsequently investigated by the FBI on bogus charges of leaking classified information.
Smithsonian
October 18, 2016
It involved a clerk who worked for the National Security Agency for three years in the mid-1960s, in a branch that gave him access to classified documents transmitted or received from NSA stations all over the world. Federal agents had evidence that he ...
ComputerWeekly.com
October 11, 2016
When Thomas Drake, Binney's colleague and fellow whistleblower, ran selected NSA surveillance data through ThinThread in 2002, he was horrified to discover that other 9/11 aeroplane hijackings had been planned and not carried out. "We had theÃÂ ...
MET
December 31, 1999
Dopo la fine della Guerra Fredda, il migliore decodificatore che gli Stati Uniti abbiano mai avuto, Bill Binney, insieme ad un piccolo team all'interno della NSA, inizia a sviluppare un rivoluzionario programma di sorveglianza, chiamato ThinThread, in ...
Smithsonian
October 18, 2016
It involved a clerk who worked for the National Security Agency for three years in the mid-1960s, in a branch that gave him access to classified documents transmitted or received from NSA stations all over the world. Federal agents had evidence that he ...
ComputerWeekly.com
October 11, 2016
When Thomas Drake, Binney's colleague and fellow whistleblower, ran selected NSA surveillance data through ThinThread in 2002, he was horrified to discover that other 9/11 aeroplane hijackings had been planned and not carried out. "We had theÃÂ ...
The Hill
October 7, 2016
Central Massachusetts would be solidly republican, except that the state Senate chair did the prettiest gerrymandering job you have ever seen, cutting a thin thread across two towns, crossing a reservoir and grabbing two college towns in western ...
ComputerWeekly.com
October 4, 2016
But William Binney, a former technical director at the NSA, told Computer Weekly that the Anderson Review had failed to consider the underlying technology behind bulk powers, which will be introduced in the Investigatory Powers Bill.
Newsweek ME
September 25, 2016
The entrance was an appropriate perch for Binney, a lanky, 73-year-old former top National Security Agency official who's largely been overlooked in the flood of publicity about Snowden, the infamous electronic-spying leaker who now resides in Moscow ...
Digital Arts Online
September 23, 2016
... confrontation with the National Security Agency (NSA) over mass surveillance, released in UK cinemas today. It follows the life of former NSA analyst William Binney, his 1990s skunkworks team and their programme ThinThread - an automated ...
Creative Review (blog)
September 22, 2016
William Binney was a technical director at the NSA but left in 2001 over concerns about its mass surveillance programs. In the late 1990s, he developed a system called ThinThread that could analyse data from emails, phone calls and internet searches toÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 22, 2016
It's a tale of two surveillance systems: Trailblazer, the pre-2006 digital-comms sweep that failed to anticipate 9/11, vs ThinThread, the DIY precursor developed on the downlow by former NSA technical director-turned-whistleblower Bill Binney. A crack ...
Deadline
September 19, 2016
I say this even after spending a long lunch interview that crackled with intelligence and big ideas from Stone and Bill Binney, an NSA wiz who invented the Thin Thread program and whose upward trajectory halted after he spoke to politicians and media ...
Deadline
September 16, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Oliver Stone opened his 20th narrative feature as a director today with Snowden, a look at the former NSA contractor who exposed a massive U.S.
ComputerWeekly.com
September 15, 2016
It is about money. The National Security Agency (NSA), GCHQ and the German BND, as well as others, all knew about ThinThread - even if today they pretend they didn't. The NSA managed to bury an official report of the Pentagon into ThinThread in secrecy ...
Gizmodo UK
September 14, 2016
Bill Binney was a code breaker, who for almost four decades served the American government as an intelligence officer in both the US Army and the National Security Agency. During the Cold War, he pioneered the study of ... Bill says that under ...
Raw Story
September 13, 2016
The entrance was an appropriate perch for Binney, a lanky, 73-year-old former top NSA official who's largely been overlooked in the flood of publicity about Snowden, the infamous electronic-spying leaker who now resides in Moscow.
Raw Story
September 13, 2016
The entrance was an appropriate perch for Binney, a lanky, 73-year-old former top NSA official who's largely been overlooked in the flood of publicity about Snowden, the infamous electronic-spying leaker who now resides in Moscow.
Newsweek
September 12, 2016
The entrance was an appropriate perch for Binney, a lanky, 73-year-old former top National Security Agency official who's largely been overlooked in the flood of publicity about Snowden, the infamous electronic-spying leaker who now resides in Moscow ...
Newsweek
September 12, 2016
The entrance was an appropriate perch for Binney, a lanky, 73-year-old former top NSA official who's largely been overlooked in the flood of publicity about Snowden, the infamous electronic-spying leaker who now resides in Moscow.
Scotsman
September 10, 2016
Money and the consolidation of power, Binney believes, are the guiding principles of not only the NSA, but GCHQ. "We should fire everyone in office and get new people in who will indict them and get them to explain in an open court what they did and ...
Observer
June 15, 2016
Here's a case in point: Muckraking news site The Intercept has been gradually releasing National Security Agency (NSA) documents secured by Edward Snowden onto the internet. In May, it published all of the agency's internal newsletters from ... Each ...
Straight.com
May 14, 2016
The former intelligence analyst explained that the NSA had a project called ThinThread in the 1990s. It involved wiretapping, which was followed up by extensive analysis of the data that was collected.
Salon
May 12, 2016
A top NSA mathematician, Binney had rolled out a sophisticated metadata analysis system called ThinThread, only to have it canceled less than a month before 9/11.
Washington Life Magazine
May 5, 2016
WWhen William Binney, Kirk Wiebe, and Thomas Drake were confronted with wrongdoing while working at the National Security Agency in early 2000, they couldn't turn a blind eye as many of their colleagues had. They were forced to ask themselves if the ...
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