The Dark Side

La storia

Sinossi in inglese

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.

Cast

W Will LymanSelf - Narrator D Dick CheneySelf (archive footage) G George W. BushSelf (archive footage) R Richard ClarkeSelf - Dir. NSC Counterterrorism 1998-'01 G Gary SchroenSelf - CIA 1970-2002 J John McLaughlinSelf - Dpty. Director, CIA 2000-'04 B Bob GrahamSelf - Senator (D-FL), Select Cmte. on Intel. 2001-'03 J James BamfordSelf - Author, 'The Puzzle Palace' M Michael ScheuerSelf - CIA 1982-2004 B Bob WoodwardSelf - 'The Washington Post' R Ron SuskindSelf - Author, 'The One Percent Doctrine' C Charles BattagliaSelf - Bush-Cheney 2000 Transition

Mostra altri interpreti

S Steve CollSelf - 'The New Yorker' D David KaySelf - Iraq Survey Group 2003-'04 G George TenetSelf (archive footage) R Richard KerrSelf - Fmr. Dpty. Director CIA J J. Cofer BlackSelf - CIA 1974-2002 M Melvin GoodmanSelf - Fmr. CIA officer F Frank CarlucciSelf - Fmr. Secretary of Defense J James MannSelf - Author, 'Rise of the Vulcans' G George H. W. BushSelf (archive footage) M Michael DelongSelf - Dpty. Cmdr. CENTCOM 2000-'03 C Condoleezza RiceSelf (archive footage) C Colin PowellSelf (archive footage) D Donald RumsfeldSelf (archive footage) T Tommy FranksSelf (archive footage) P Paul WolfowitzSelf (archive footage) K Kenneth PollackSelf - National Security Council 1999-'01 C Carl FordSelf - Dir. State Dept. Intel. 2001-'03 G Gary BerntsenSelf - CIA 1982-2005 T Tyler DrumhellerSelf - Chief, CIA European Div. 2001-'05 L Lawrence WilkersonSelf - Chief of Staff, State Dept. 2002-'05 D Daniel BenjaminSelf - National Security Council 1994 - '99 D Dana PriestSelf - 'The Washington Post' J John O. BrennanSelf - Dpty. Exec. Director, CIA 2001-'03 F F. Michael MaloofSelf - DoD 1982-2004 V Vincent CannistraroSelf - Fmr. CIA officer S Sam ErvinSelf (archive footage) R Richard NixonSelf (archive footage) J John YooSelf - Legal Counsel, DOJ 2001-'03 M Mark GarlascoSelf - Def. Intel. Agency 1997-'03 W W. Patrick LangSelf - Fmr. Def. Intel. Agency officer P Paul PillarSelf - National Intel. Officer 2000-'05 D Dennis HastertSelf (archive footage) J Joseph WilsonSelf - State Department 1976-'98 R Robin B. WrightSelf - 'The Washington Post' P Patrick FitzgeraldSelf (archive footage) A Andrew CardSelf (archive footage) Y Yoweri MuseveniSelf (archive footage) S Scooter LibbySelf (archive footage) L L. Paul BremerSelf (archive footage)