Headscratchers / The Bourne Ultimatum

• The entire plot of the movie is that the Blackbriar people think Jason is gunning for them, even though he has no motivation to do so, spared the life of the person whom killed his wife, AND has made absolutely no moves WHATSOEVER against their organization since the second movie.
  • Kramer and Vosen wanted Bourne dead because he's proof that illegal black-ops programs existed, and they didn't want anything about Treadstone/Blackbriar being revealed to the public.
  • Also, Jason Bourne was gunning for them. He was making contact with a reporter who was trying to expose the entire operation, and he helped him evade CIA hounds. After the events of the second film Bourne was pretty pissed off and if someone suddenly decided they wanted to expose Treadstone in the press, he was interested. The only reason they started chasing after him was because he beat the crap out of several of their agents. And the second movie actually occurs concurrently with the third movie, up to a point, and the bulk of it is only set shortly before the third one.
• CIA able to know within seconds/minutes of when someone in the middle of Europe says a specific word (which COULD have been someone saying "a black fryer")? CIA able to suddenly have the whole call recorded? And the caller's ID? And everything about him? And then they have over a dozen perfectly equipped spies ready to deploy within a very short period of time? And they're able to just hack into London's security network in seconds and view the video feeds? And they're able to hear what he's saying even through the middle of rush hour traffic, lots of noise, and the guy is speaking inside a car? Wow.
  • This is actually not that far off. It probably wouldn't happen in real time but the US and its allies do have several systems which sift through all telecommunications that pass through assets they control. Email, phone, cellphone, even this post. They sift through it with a massive pattern recognition system and when certain trigger words appear they flag the message, save it, and send it down to some analyst spooks. At one time the NSA employed 10,000 such analysts. The other wiki has some data. The fiction in Bourne is the speed here not the breadth of surveillance.... now I've flagged myself for detention. I hope you're happy.
  • Another possibility: Bourne reads in the paper an earlier article that Ross had written about him, identifying him as a CIA operative. It's possible that Ross had already been put on some sort of watch list at that point, so they were already monitoring him when he mentioned Blackbriar.
• Gunning down a journalist from the Guardian in broad daylight in the middle of London is a sure way to get a bunch of investigative journalists looking into whatever it was that Simon Ross was working on when he was killed. Not to mention that British officialdom would be rather pissed off too.
  • Ross being an investigative journalist, it is possible that he'd done stories on various unsavory characters, any one of whom could have wanted him dead, not necessarily drawing immediate attention to his current story.
  • Vosen doesn't seem particularly proud of it either when he's with Pam : "Decisions made in real time are never perfect."
• How did Bourne get into the CIA deep cover building in NYC, much less throughout it, much less into Vosen's office?
  • How did the old Treadstone passport get noticed / connected by one of Landy's people but not anyone else (e.g. Vosen's crew or anyone else in the national security apparatus)? How did Bourne know that passport would have that specific effect?
• Why did Desh walk away from Bourne on the street instead of verifying that he's dead and/or finishing the job? It's not like Bourne was in pieces.
• Why did Nicky still have any access at all to Blackbriar / Desh after the ruckus in Madrid?
• Why did the CIA black ops program's training room in the NYC hospital where Bourne and Hirsch chatted... have a breakable window to the outside world?
• When Nikki is fleeing from Desh why does she not use a headscarf to hide her super-conspicuous blonde-streaked hair?