"A little background: Mr. Wilson was sent to Niger by the CIA to verify a U.S. intelligence report about the sale of yellowcake — because Vice President Dick Cheney requested it, because Cheney had doubts about the validity of the intelligence report."Mr. May never answered, but he was just on Fox & Friends right now, and he addressed both points, either by coincidence or because of the feedback he had gotten over his article "Scandal".1) In this phrase, when you say "Cheney requested it" did you mean that the Vice President had requested the verification, requested the trip, or requested Mr. Wilson to make the trip?
2) We have seen other reports that the Vice President's office made inquiries about the report, but your article is the only one we have seen that says that Mr. Cheney had doubts about the report. From where does this information come (if it is just that you have a source who told you, that is fine, but obviously the more information you could give the better).
He pretty much echoed what I have been saying- there is the potential for a real scandal here due to Wilson being sent. I'll try to paraphrase what he said: 'Think of it this way. How often when a request comes from the highest levels of the government, such as the Vice President's office? When it does, does the CIA choose some of its most experienced officers? No. It instead decides to send a single guy, with no experience, and a record of being very anti-war and very much an adversary of the President. How did this happen, and who made it happen?' This indicates that Cheney did not ask for Wilson, and hints that May thinks it was a bit of a put-up job.
For the second, he stated that the assertion did not have any substantiation for it in the report Cheney had seen; it was just a statement that Iraq had tried. He wanted to know the background.
FWIW