The NSA’s stunning 9/11 failure: How big-money contractors made us more vulnerable to attack

The NSA’s stunning 9/11 failure: How big-money contractors made us more vulnerable to attack - Salon.com:
"Bill Binney developed a system that might have prevented 9/11.
But it was canceled in the weeks before
...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.
Top executives at the agency had decided a clunky program called Trailblazer, contracted out to the intelligence contractor giant SAIC, would be NSA’s future, not the cheaper, more effective and privacy-protective ThinThread.
...“While I was in there trying to look at the material on my computer, the president of the contracting group that I had working on ThinThread came over to me and said that he’d just been in a contractor meeting” with a former top SAIC official who moved back to NSA, supporting Trailblazer.
The contractors, it turns out, were warned not to embarrass companies like SAIC, which (the implication is) had just failed to warn about the biggest attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor.
“Do not embarrass large companies,” the former SAIC manager, according to Binney, said to the other contractor.
“You do your part, you’ll get your share, there’s plenty for everybody.”
Stay quiet about the failures that led to 9/11, and you’ll be financially rewarded..."
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