Maggie Gyllenhaal as Linda Sykes

Glenn Close as Karen Moore

Dean Winters as Ned McGrath

Ken Leung as Liu Tsung-Yuan

Bruno Lastra as Sharif Bin Said

Shing Ka as Chinese Police

Austin Pendleton as James Perley

Tom Guiry as Gerry Sykes

Fred Koheler as Jimmy Briggs

Jim Gaffigan as Reverend Craig Peterson

Peter Jacobson as John Scanlon

Justin Bartha as

George H. W. Bush as self (archive footage)

George W. Bush as self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton as self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan as self (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman as self (archive footage)

Kerry Washington as

Christopher Logan as FBI Agent Ransford

Ramsey Faragallah as Abdul Amin