Did Cheney's office do "work up" on Wilson and his family?

[DesEtoiles]

Wilson connects Cheney to the events involving his wife through a meeting he said occurred in March 2003. He charged that Cheney's staff — with at least the "implicit" involvement of the vice president — met and decided to investigate his background. The investigation, he said, uncovered his wife's role at the CIA.

"The office of the vice president, either the vice president himself or more likely his chief of staff, chaired a meeting at which a decision was made to do a 'work-up' on me," Wilson wrote in The Politics of Truth.

Vanity Fair magazine reported in January that Cheney's office denied that any such meeting occurred.

The "work-up," Wilson said in the interview, was begun in an effort to "besmirch me" because the administration knew he could challenge a justification for the war in Iraq — that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire fuel for a nuclear weapon from the African nation of Niger.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-29-cheney-cia-leak_x.htm

[jsamuel]

1. wow, this is from 2004

[NMDemDist2]

2. well if Cheney's office "denied" it, I'd put on money on Wilson's take n/t

[Carolab]

3. He repeated this today when he appeared with Schumer.

Told the press to go look it up.

[leftofthedial]

4. undoubtedly