On Tuesday's "All Things Considered", the reporter -- I believe Nina Totenberg -- covering the Libby trial said, roughly: Judith Miller said Libby told her that Joseph Wilson was sent to Niger by the CIA, not at the request of Vice President Cheney, as Wilson had claimed.
Now, I haven't purchased the transcript so perhaps other listeners can help out here, especially someone who's got it. The way I heard it, the reporter stated in her own voice, not quoting or paraphrasing Miller, that Wilson claimed Cheney had sent him to Niger. Of course that's not true; Libby has consistently said that the CIA sent him to follow up on questions the VP had posed. Libby never said the VP personally sent Libby, just that the CIA was responding to the VP's questions. The facts and various Republican distortions of this scenerio have been thoroughly catalogued over at Media Matters.
Maybe the reporter was simply repeating what Miller said, and Miller had it wrong again. But it sounded to me like the NPR reporter asserted as fact something that isn't true: That Wilson claimed the VP had sent him to Niger. Any help on this?