[LibWrangler]

You're missing the point.

Wilson's complaint was that Cheney should have known, but it was not kicked up to that level.

The point being, it was deemed an oral report not worth kicking up 4 levels, and when it was later repeated, months and months later, Wilson pretended surprise that his report was "ignored"-but it was ignored by lower levels months before.

The big question is this:

If Plame was a high-level analyst with enough clout to send her husband to Niger, then why didn't she make sure Wilson's report was kicked upstairs for over a year?

[Steve_Seattle]

"If Plame was a high-level analyst with enough clout to send her husband to Niger, then why didn't she make sure Wilson's report was kicked upstairs for over a year?"

I think it's because the report really didn't contain anything new or substantial. Do you really think Wilson made a serious, professional investigation in his eight days there, especially when he was mixing in personal business along with the investigation? No, it was a token, BS report, probably the minimum that Wilson could get away with in exchange for the CIA picking up the tab for his trip.