The Dark Side
"We also have to work the dark side...we've got to spend time in the shadows..."
2006 · 1h 24m Documentary
Overview
On Sept. 11, 2001, deep inside a White House bunker, Vice President Dick Cheney was ordering U.S. fighter planes to shoot down any commercial airliner still in the air above America. At that moment, CIA Director George Tenet was meeting with his counter-terrorism team in Langley, Virginia. Both leaders acted fast, to prepare their country for a new kind of war. But soon a debate would grow over the goals of the war on terror, and the decision to go to war in Iraq. Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and others saw Iraq as an important part of a broader plan to remake the Middle East and project American power worldwide. Meanwhile Tenet, facing division in his own organization, saw non-state actors such as Al Qaeda as the highest priority. FRONTLINE’s investigation of the ensuing conflict includes more than 40 interviews, thousands of pages of documentary evidence, and a substantial photographic archive.
Director and cast
- Will Lyman as Self - Narrator
- Dick Cheney as Self (archive footage)
- George W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
- Richard Clarke as Self - Dir. NSC Counterterrorism 1998-'01
- Gary Schroen as Self - CIA 1970-2002
- John McLaughlin as Self - Dpty. Director, CIA 2000-'04
- Bob Graham as Self - Senator (D-FL), Select Cmte. on Intel. 2001-'03
- James Bamford as Self - Author, 'The Puzzle Palace'
- Michael Scheuer as Self - CIA 1982-2004
- Bob Woodward as Self - 'The Washington Post'
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