Thank you for the very concise clarification. Bookmarked.
this is a reprint of Wilson's op-ed that started the whole thing:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0706-02.htm
notice the careful wording here regarding the link to the VPs office, the impression he is trying to leave is clear, while allowing the words to be parsed otherwise:
"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. While I never saw the report, I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake — a form of lightly processed ore — by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office."