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During the second week of July, after Wilson's 6 July Op-Ed in the NY Times, Wilson was mistakenly said to have been sent by the Vice President's office. This was cleared up in Novak's article, but who would Novak called on first to figure out why a Clinton appointee was sent on such a mission by this administration. Of course: the VP's office.

I making the case that someone in Cheney's office leaked the CIA info to discredit Wilson, but I need links to show this misconception that people originallly believed that the VP had sent Wilson. Here's what I have so far:

Ray McGovern reflects this misconception in a July 14 open memorandum to Bush: "There is just too much evidence that Ambassador Wilson was sent to Niger at the behest of Vice President Cheney's office, and that Wilson's findings were duly reported not only to that office but to others as well." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4107.htm . As does Will Pitt when he writes on July 11: "Wilson was dispatched in February of 2002 at the behest of Dick Cheney to investigate the veracity of the Niger evidence." http://www.agitprop.org.au/nowar/20030711_pitt_bush_you_are_a_liar.htm . Ian Macpherson writes, similarly, "Now it appears that Wilson was sent to Niger at the behest of none other than Vice President Cheney's department" http://www.netnacs.com/downunder/archive/du-0026.htm . Steve Perry continues the error even at the end of the month: "It was Wilson who traveled to Africa in 2002 at Dick Cheney's behest" http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/sperry/stories/storyReader$517 .


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