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Guess which story on Iraq 60 minutes bumped so they could run the infamous Bush National Guard story?

"A team of “60 Minutes” correspondents and consulting reporters spent more than six months investigating the Niger uranium documents fraud, CBS sources tell NEWSWEEK. The group landed the first ever on-camera interview with Elisabetta Burba, the Italian journalist who first obtained the phony documents, as well as her elusive source, Rocco Martino, a mysterious Roman businessman with longstanding ties to European intelligence agencies."

http://www.ccmep.org/2004_articles/iraq/092304_story_that_didnt_run.htm

Also in that article:

"A French government official told NEWSWEEK that Martino also had a relationship with French intelligence agencies. But the French official rejected suggestions from U.S. and British officials that French intelligence may have played a role in creating the documents in order to embarrass Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair."

Me: Those Niger docs were obvious forgeries. The docs were not planted by someone who wanted to support the war, they were planted by someone who wanted to undermine the basis for war. These are the same forged docs that Wilson claimed to have knowledge of...before they were even in CIA possession...a claim he later retracted and said he must have "misspoke".

Also, as far as Rocco's credibility:

"Meanwhile, she [Elisabetta Burba, the Italian journalist who first obtained the phony documents] said she is fed up with Martino who has “lied” to her and provided contradictory accounts to other journalists."

Fedora,
Here is a link to another article about Rocco that came out about a month after the Libero article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/19/wniger19.xml