“On May 6 [2003], without mentioning former ambassador Joseph Wilson by name, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published the first account of Wilson’s trip to Africa. ‘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 [alleged to have occurred with Iraq], so a former U.S. ambassador to Africa was dispatched to Niger,’ he wrote. ‘In February 2002, according to someone present at the meetings, that envoy reported to the C.I.A. and the State Department that the information was unequivocally wrong and that the documents had been forged.’ ”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 310