The Dark Side

The Dark Side

2006
1h 24m
10.0

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Documentary

""We also have to work the dark side...we've got to spend time in the shadows...""

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.

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Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
FRONTLINE Kirk Documentary Group WGBH Educational Foundation (US)
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

central intelligence agency (cia) war on terror afghanistan war (2001-2021) taliban us republican party kabul united nations iraq war weapon of mass destruction 9/11 vice president niger post 9/11 department of justice bush administration the taliban vice presidential candidate cia ford administration

Quick Facts

Release Date June 20, 2006
Status Released
Language EN
Website Visit Site

Cast

Will Lyman
Will Lyman

Self - Narrator

Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney

Self (archive footage)

George W. Bush
George W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

Richard Clarke
Richard Clarke

Self - Dir. NSC Counterterrorism 1998-'01

Gary Schroen
Gary Schroen

Self - CIA 1970-2002

John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin

Self - Dpty. Director, CIA 2000-'04

Bob Graham
Bob Graham

Self - Senator (D-FL), Select Cmte. on Intel. 2001-'03

James Bamford
James Bamford

Self - Author, 'The Puzzle Palace'

Michael Scheuer
Michael Scheuer

Self - CIA 1982-2004

Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward

Self - 'The Washington Post'

Ron Suskind
Ron Suskind

Self - Author, 'The One Percent Doctrine'

Charles Battaglia
Charles Battaglia

Self - Bush-Cheney 2000 Transition

Key Crew

Michael Kirk
Director
Michael Kirk
Writer
Michael Kirk
Producer
Jim Gilmore
Producer
Mike Wiser
Producer
Louis Wiley Jr.
Executive Producer
David Fanning
Executive Producer