The Dark Side
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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Cast
Will Lyman
Dick Cheney
George W. Bush
Richard Clarke
Gary Schroen
John McLaughlin
Bob Graham
James Bamford
Michael Scheuer
Bob Woodward
Ron Suskind
Charles Battaglia
Steve Coll
David Kay
George Tenet
Richard Kerr
J. Cofer Black
Melvin Goodman
Frank Carlucci
James Mann
George H. W. Bush
Michael Delong
Condoleezza Rice
Colin Powell
Donald Rumsfeld
Tommy Franks
Paul Wolfowitz
Kenneth Pollack
Carl Ford
Gary Berntsen
Tyler Drumheller
Lawrence Wilkerson
Daniel Benjamin
Dana Priest
John O. Brennan
F. Michael Maloof
Vincent Cannistraro
Sam Ervin
Richard Nixon
John Yoo
Mark Garlasco
W. Patrick Lang
Paul Pillar
Dennis Hastert
Joseph Wilson
Robin B. Wright
Patrick Fitzgerald
Andrew Card
Yoweri Museveni
Scooter Libby
L. Paul Bremer
