Just watched: "A Good American" - About Bill Binney

I've followed his situation for years now.

Documentary has some very revealing interviews with him and several of his fellow NSA co-workers who got "Jacked Up" by the [DS] for bucking the system.

*Disclaimer: I am no where near his intellectual level. Just wanted to state that up front.

But here's some of my; Take Aways & Surprises:

• I found an uncanny similarity in the method he described about himself regarding how he approached intel analysis using a (pattern perception awareness - that cascades into a picture of relationships - which builds a map of activities leading to prediction of tendencies = all of which is gleaned just from meta-data), I found it to be so similar to the way I naturally developed that same type methodology. Sometimes I can just see the patterns.

• Very much how I find so much sauce when I dig. Cascading degrees of separation paint a picture & show tendencies of behavior.

(He did things His Way)

• He knew the methods that worked for him and he used them even while "The System" resisted his efforts.

• He claimed he accurately predicted:

(1968) - Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia Days before it happened.

(1979) - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Days before it happened.

• Using his own meta data analysis methodology.

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Big Take Away:

Listening to him describe the surveillance tools (Trailblazer & Thinthread) that he and his co-workers, who left the NSA in disgust after 9/11, had developed; The picture came into sharp focus:

• Most likely, nefarious elements within the intelligence community had been "Shadowing" him for years. Using him and others like him to build sophisticated spy tools. Once the the tools were sufficiently developed they cast him aside.

• Interesting one of his co-workers mentioned in the documentary that lots of people got rich during the time of these spy tools being used, but no terrorist attacks were stopped.