Wilson never said that Cheney personally sent him. That's an oft-repeated distortion. He said he was sent to try and answer questions posed by Cheney's office.
By the way, Fitzgerald's investigation revealed that Cheney knew about Wilson far earlier than he's claimed...although I continue to believe that Cheney played no part in selecting Wilson and never saw or heard of his report until much after it was submitted.
Comment on a CNN article found here will show you how the left and Wilson sought to claim the President lied about something that in fact was never talked about as Wilson claimed it had. In other words Wilson was claiming Bush lied about Iraq purchasing uranium from Niger when Bush never said they did.
No one except far left extremists any longer believe Wilson is anything more then a self aggrandizing partisan whose only goal is self promotion and the destruction of this Administration. When he is confronted by all his inconsistencies and the fact that the bi partisan commission caught him in so many lies, his only answer is "they are wrong"
Let's remember that this guy also claimed that the Bush Admin used forged documents to form its decision on the yellow cake deal. The problem is that these documents were not discovered until 8 months AFTER Bush made his speech and AFTER Wilson testified before the Committee. When called on how he could know about documents that didn't exist at the time he claimed they were used, his only response was "I mis spoke" This is not a error, this is an outright lie. There is simply no way he could have known about these documents unless he was somehow involved in their creation or dispersal. You seem to have not read the committee report. I suggest you do so.
http://www.seixon.com/blog/archives/2005/10/joseph_strawman.html
As for Cheney. Cheney never said he "knew" Wilson. He said he knew about him, had heard of him but had never met him. There is quite a difference between knowing someone and knowing about someone. I know about President Bush but I certainly don;t know him.
Knowing "of" someone and knowing someone is two very different things.
(From memory) I think Cheney said: "Who the hell is Joe Wilson? I don't even know him."
I would have to say there was never any personal contact between Cheney and Wilson. Every one of us can say we "know of" Wilson, but none of us know him on a business or pleasure basis. And if someone was saying things behind my back, I'd say exactly what Cheney said.