Dick Cheney and the yellow cake

I know this is a bit late in chatting about, but lost how to get back on here....
Anyway the story goes that Dick Cheney covered up the fact that Saddam hadn't tried to buy yellow cake from NIgeria and said he had.
He may have done that, but The US was in full cognicance of the facts as it was the UK that 'uncovered' the evidence and the CIA [or whoever] rubbished it and Blair had to back down. It was in the UK media big time when it happened, so I presume it was in the US papers also ?
This is IMO a purely dirty tricks jobbie