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The Dark Side

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

10.0(1)20061h 24m1

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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Released
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Language
English
  • 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

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Michael Kirk

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • TV20 Jun 2006

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The Dark Side was released on 20 June 2006.

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