ThinThread
ThinThread was an intelligence gathering project by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) conducted throughout the 1990s. The program involved wiretapping and sophisticated analysis of the resulting data. The program was discontinued three weeks before the September 11, 2001 attacks due to the changes in priorities and the consolidation of U.S. intelligence authority.

The "change in priority" consisted of the decision made by the director of NSA General Michael V. Hayden to go with a concept called Trailblazer, despite the fact that ThinThread was a working prototype that claimed to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens. ThinThread was dismissed and replaced by the Trailblazer Project, which lacked the privacy protections. A consortium led by Science Applications International Corporation was awarded a $280 million contract to develop Trailblazer in 2002.
Q121194
National Security Agency
Concept
Q10806
September 11, 2001 attacks
EVE
Q449604
Michael V. Hayden
PER
Q7832778
Trailblazer Project
PER
Q14993631
Science Applications International Corporation
ORG
Q7784249
ThinThread
ORG
Q7784249
ThinThread
ORG
Q7784249
ThinThread
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1990
DATE
2001-09-11T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
September 11, 2001
DATE
2002-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2002
DATE
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280
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point in time