[MonroeDNA]

Correct me if I am wrong, but to you, does this sound like somebody approached Cheney with an idea, and he signed off on it, not knowing it was going to be some axe-grinder?

Hence the dismissal of the report?

I am way over my head here...excuse me while I duck and go away.

[William McKinley]

I don't know. That phrasing from May's article comes across to me like he was trying to do a brief 'how we got here' summary; to me this indicates that he considered the important things to be what follows, not of what he merely was giving a Cliff Notes version. It would be nice if we could find out on what he was basing that summation, and any other details about the genesis of the trip that he could provide.