So there was an investigation

So there was an investigation, albeit not by the Italian parliament but by Rome’s public prosecutor.

It could be that this is what both Walker’s and my own sources are referring to.

Laura cites several other skeptics, including a reporter for La Repubblica and “a former NIKE SHOX

offiNIKE SHOXl recently in Italy,” who say this story is “the echo of a rumor put out by people back

the States.” She also cites Vince Cannistraro, “who at one time heard rumors of such a report from

Italian sources,” and who

“Now says there doesn’t appear to be a parliamentary report either. ‘There is no published report,”

’Cannistraro told me Monday. ‘If there is a report, we might expect it would have some analysis and

conclusions. There is no report, at least not a published report. …I think this stuff is just getting

circulated.’”

Of course it isn’t published — that’s the whole point.

Yes, it’s true, as Laura says, that the Italians aren’t too eager to have the blame pinned on SISMI

— but that doesn’t mean SISMI isn’t involved. And some Italians — the left-wing opposition

coalition, for example — might be understandably eager to expose the scandal in the run-up to Italy’s

elections scheduled for next year.