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I wish I could point you to what I have read, but the information overload has been astonishing. From what I remember, though, I read something about Cheney's desire to check into the uranium matter and asking the CIA to do so. Wilson was sent by the CIA to Niger and came back in fall of 2002 with a "negative" report. Negative on the uranium claim. The CIA claimed that his findings were forwarded to the appropriate offices.

William, ping to 252...

I remember reading it too. It was by the noted communist propagandist Robert Scheer in the L.A. Times. There was no substantiation- it was sourced about as well as Doug Thompson's Wilkinson piece.

So far, there have been three people making allegations. One: Terrance Wilkinson, who appears to not exist, but the far left grabbed his story and peddled it to the international media.

Two: Joseph C. Wilson. "He was recently the keynote speaker for the Education for Peace in Iraq Center, a far-left group that opposed not only the U.S. military intervention in Iraq but also the sanctions — and even the no-fly zones that protected hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurds and Shias from being slaughtered by Saddam." He's an "adjunct scholar" at the Middle East Institute — which advocates for Saudi interests. The March 1, 2002 issue of the Saudi government-weekly Ain-Al Yaqeen lists the MEI as an "Islamic research institutes supported by the Kingdom." And he worked for Tom Foley, Al Gore, and Jimmy Carter.

Three: Greg Thielmann, who worked for John Chester Culver, Iowa politician who thought FDR was not far enough to the left and admired Henry Wallace, a man once called 'Stalin's ambassador to the court of Roosevelt'

I am really starting to think there may be a real scandal here- and it is a red one.

I wish I could point you to what I have read, but the information overload has been astonishing. From what I remember, though, I read something about Cheney's desire to check into the uranium matter and asking the CIA to do so. Wilson was sent by the CIA to Niger and came back in fall of 2002 with a "negative" report. Negative on the uranium claim. The CIA claimed that his findings were forwarded to the appropriate offices.

I posted at #30 a link to an article/letter by Jack Straw, huck. Straw references the story. First, Wilson is a democratic operative--formerly of the offices of Al Gore and Tom Foley. Second, his report was negative but nowhere near an exhaustige and comprehensive investigation that would put an end to the matter. Third, Straw speaks of a 1999 incident involving Wilson that buttresses the British intelligence findings.