On May 6, 2003, journalist Nicholas Kristof wrote in The New York Times, regarding the Niger-Iraq yellowcake situation: ” ‘I’m told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president’s [Dick Cheney’s] office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to Africa [Joe Wilson] was dispatched to Niger. In February 2002, according to someone present at the meeting, that envoy reported to the CIA and State Department that the information was unequivocally wrong and that the documents had been forged.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 222-223