In September 2001, five days after the terrorist attacks that shocked the nation, Vice-President Dick Cheney announced on "Meet the Press" that the US government would need to start working "the dark side." "We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world," he explained. "A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies, if we're going to be successful. That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to ...