Independent Lens

Woman,

voice-over

When I first got into the military, I mean, I was thinking it was kind of a win-win. It was a force for good in the world. I could actually help people, I could go places, I could learn things. There was nothing negative about it at the time that was in my thinking or in my consciousness. And, you know, I thought I was gonna be on the right side of history, and today I don't believe I was.

Crows cawing

Lisa

I worked on a DGS-- a Distributed Ground System. As the name implies, I mean, it's a distributed system, and it spans the globe and it eats data, and it eats lots and lots and lots of data. This is global. This is getting information anywhere at any time, shooting people from anywhere at any time, and it's not just one person sitting there with a little remote control, a little joystick, moving around a plane that's halfway across the world. That's not all there is. It's like borders don't matter anymore, and there's a huge system that spans the globe that can just suck up endless amounts of your life, your personal data. I mean, this could grow to get so out of control, and we're not the only ones that have this; this is gonna be commonplace if it's not already.

Distant man shouting, ball bounces

Lisa

That good? Like the beach water? Lisa,

voice-over

It's a secret program, and what that means is that I can't just go shouting off the hilltops, telling the public what it is. What I can tell you is that, to me--one person who worked within this massive thing--it's frightening.