A Good American

Synopsis

The mass surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden was not the first scandal in the history of the American intelligence agency NSA. Friedrich Moser’s eye-opening A GOOD AMERICAN soberly unfolds the deeply disturbing story of how corruption, lies and personal ambitions led to the closure of a cheap and effective monitoring system that demonstrably could have stopped the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The mind behind the ingenious system was former intelligence agent Bill Binney, who tells the story of how his brilliant system was abandoned in favour of an expensive and useless intelligence programme.

Director Biography

Friedrich Moser (1969, Austria) studied history and German studies at the University of Salzburg. His career began as a television journalist in Italy. In 2001 he founded blue+green communication to produce documentaries. In addition, he lectures in history and documentaries at the University of Vienna and teaches video production at the Secondary School for Commercial Graphics in Bressanone-Brixen (Italy).