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Season 3 20012002 Cast Rob Lowe Stockard Channing Dulé Hill Allison Janney Janel Moloney Richard Schiff John Spencer Bradley Whitford and Martin Sheen The third season which covers the administrations third and fourth years in office starts off with Bartlet announcing his intention to run for reelection and is heavily devoted to the upcoming presidential election Other prominent plotlines include Congressional investigations into whether Bartlet committed electoral fraud by concealing his MS a death threat against CJ and the ensuing relationship she develops with a Secret Service agent assigned to her the Qumari defense minister Abdul Shareef plotting terrorist attacks against the US and a troubling meeting between Toby and the President that leaves Bartlet with a bout of insomnia in Night Five The season finale Posse Comitatus closes several of these storylines as Bartlet meets his opponent in the elections and reaffirms his commitment to beat him The episode ends with the president finally deciding to order Shareefs assassination a legally questionable act and CJs agents murder just after the man threatening CJ was caught From a critical perspective series creator Aaron Sorkin acknowledged in October 2002 that the terrorismrelated plots designed to keep the series relevant after the reallife 911 attacks were awkward at times saying from week to week you felt like you were writing the show handcuffed a little bit I didnt know how to write it anymore It was a constant search for what I wasnt doing that used to make the show work Maybe there was a way to make it work there probably was I wasnt able to find it in twentytwo episodes 1 Nonetheless the show went on to win its third Outstanding Drama Emmy in a row