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The Dark Side (2006)
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.
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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.
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Genre:Documentary
Written By:Michael Kirk
In Theaters:6/20/2006
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Runtime:84 minutes
Studio:FRONTLINE, Kirk Documentary Group, WGBH Educational Foundation (US)
Cast
Michael Kirk
Director
Will Lyman
Self - Narrator
Dick Cheney
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Richard Clarke
Self - Dir. NSC Counterterrorism 1998-'01
Gary Schroen
Self - CIA 1970-2002
John McLaughlin
Self - Dpty. Director, CIA 2000-'04
Bob Graham
Self - Senator (D-FL), Select Cmte. on Intel. 2001-'03
James Bamford
Self - Author, 'The Puzzle Palace'
Michael Scheuer
Self - CIA 1982-2004
Bob Woodward
Self - 'The Washington Post'
Ron Suskind
Self - Author, 'The One Percent Doctrine'
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