Site R

James Bamford spills the beans on the President Vice President Cheney’s “undisclosed” location:

[T]he undisclosed location known as Site R, an underground bunker on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border where the Vice President spent much of his time in 2001. Deep under Raven Rock Mountain, Site R “is a secret world of five buildings, each three stories tall, computer filled caverns and a subterranean water reservoir.” It is just 7 miles from Camp David.

The revelation comes in Bamford’s book, A Pretext for War, which looks at the CIA’s recent shortcomings and how it caved in to the administration pressure to go along with the trumped up case for war against Iraq.
An interesting, though not surprising, nugget from Time’s book review:

The Bush hard-liners had long believed that stability could come to the Middle East and Israel � only if Saddam Hussein was overthrown and Iraq converted into a stable democracy. Led by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, they were installed at various national-security choke points in the government, and nothing moved without their O.K. Bamford comes very close to stating that the hard-liners were wittingly or unwittingly acting as agents of Israel’s hard-line Likud Party, which believed Israel should operate with impunity in the region and dictate terms to its neighbors. Such a world view, Bamford argues, was simply repotted by the hard-liners into U.S. foreign policy in the early Bush years, with the war in Iraq as its ultimate goal. Bamford asserts that the backgrounds, political philosophies and experiences of many of the hard-liners helped to hardwire the pro-Israel mind-set in the Bush inner circle and suggests that Washington mistook Israel’s interests for its own when it pre-emptively invaded Iraq last year.

One is lead to believe that U.S./Israeli interests are virtually one and the same when you look at the recent American stance during the so-called Mideast peace process.
At any rate, this looks like an interesting book.