[Glic]

The question was who sent Wilson to Niger and why

Exactly. Do you have any links to where Wilson says Cheney sent him..I'm trying to bookmark some of some of this stuff. Thanks!

[kabar]

I would start with Wilson's July 6th NYT article, What I Didn't Find in Africa , in which he gives the inference that the VP sent him. He states, "In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report."

Wilson goes on to say, "Those are the facts surrounding my efforts. The vice president's office asked a serious question. I was asked to help formulate the answer. I did so, and I have every confidence that the answer I provided was circulated to the appropriate officials within our government."

"The question now is how that answer was or was not used by our political leadership. If my information was deemed inaccurate, I understand (though I would be very interested to know why). If, however, the information was ignored because it did not fit certain preconceptions about Iraq, then a legitimate argument can be made that we went to war under false pretenses. (It's worth remembering that in his March "Meet the Press" appearance, Mr. Cheney said that Saddam Hussein was "trying once again to produce nuclear weapons.")

Wilson tried to dance away from the VP connection on his October 5 MTP appearance. Transcript for October 5

Fedora has done some excellent work tying this all together with plenty of links. What Wilson Didn’t Say About Africa