The Dark Side
2006, English. Directed by Michael Kirk.
"We also have to work the dark side...we've got to spend time in the shadows..."
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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Cast & crew
- Michael KirkDirector
- Will LymanSelf - Narrator
- Dick CheneySelf (archive footage)
- George W. BushSelf (archive footage)
- Richard ClarkeSelf - Dir. NSC Counterterrorism 1998-'01
- Gary SchroenSelf - CIA 1970-2002
- John McLaughlinSelf - Dpty. Director, CIA 2000-'04
- Bob GrahamSelf - Senator (D-FL), Select Cmte. on Intel. 2001-'03
- James BamfordSelf - Author, 'The Puzzle Palace'
- Michael ScheuerSelf - CIA 1982-2004
- Bob WoodwardSelf - 'The Washington Post'
- Ron SuskindSelf - Author, 'The One Percent Doctrine'
- Charles BattagliaSelf - Bush-Cheney 2000 Transition
Details
- Released
- 20 June 2006
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Michael Kirk
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The Dark Side (2006) was directed by Michael Kirk and stars Will Lyman, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush.