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The Dark Side

10.020061h 24mMovieDocumentary

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…

DirectorMichael Kirk
WriterMichael Kirk
ProducersMichael Kirk·Jim Gilmore

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Cast · Directed by Michael Kirk

WLWill Lyman
Will Lyman
Self - Narrator
DCDick Cheney
Dick Cheney
Self (archive footage)
GBGeorge W. Bush
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
RCRichard Clarke
Richard Clarke
Self - Dir. NSC Counterterrorism 1998-'01
GS
Gary Schroen
Self - CIA 1970-2002
JM
John McLaughlin
Self - Dpty. Director, CIA 2000-'04
BG
Bob Graham
Self - Senator (D-FL), Select Cmte. on Intel. 2001-'03
JB
James Bamford
Self - Author, 'The Puzzle Palace'
MSMichael Scheuer
Michael Scheuer
Self - CIA 1982-2004
BWBob Woodward
Bob Woodward
Self - 'The Washington Post'
RSRon Suskind
Ron Suskind
Self - Author, 'The One Percent Doctrine'
CB
Charles Battaglia
Self - Bush-Cheney 2000 Transition

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