December 8, 2017 11:19AM 

# Postscript: THINTHREAD-TRAILBLAZER DoD IG Report 

By [Patrick G. Eddington](https://www.cato.org/people/patrick-g-eddington) 

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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 Just​Se​cu​ri​ty​.org [piece](https://www.justsecurity.org/47632/hayden-nsa-road-911/) yesterday, so you can now find it [here](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/wp-content/uploads/2004_dod_ig_tt-tb_report_071817_foia_version.pdf).

I should point out that at the end of the excellent documentary on this topic, [A Good American](http://agoodamerican.org), the film’s creators noted that Hayden, NSA’s Signal Intelligence Division director Maureen Baginski, and two other senior NSA executives involved in this affair declined to be interviewed on camera.

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