More on Frontline's Dark Side

I have been browsing the PBS/Frontline website and finding a great deal of material that supplements the show from Tuesday night. Here's the main Frontline page on The Dark Side. And here's a fascinating series of interviews of former people in the CIA with a focus on the infamous National Intelligence Estimate (NIE).

Jeff Weintraub has this to say about "The Dark Side" at TPM Cafe:

The PBS FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARY "THE DARK SIDE," which aired last night, didn't contain a lot of previously unearthed information about Vice President Cheney's extraordinary influence on our post-9/11 "War On Terrorism" policy. But the preponderance of evidence the program collected and the thorough corroboration from former top military and national security officials who witnessed firsthand what Cheney and his surrogates did ought to end any argument about whether the Vice President bears significant responsibility for waging a disastrous war against Iraq based on weak and manipulated evidence. As former CIA Director George Tenet might say, this is a "slam dunk" case.

To me, the most important question this documentary raises by implication is, where was the President?