MSM at it again

This MSNBC story cites an "Italian Politican" saying that the U.S. "knew" that Saddam did not try to buy Uranium:

ROME - Italian secret services warned the United States months before it invaded Iraq that a dossier about a purported Saddam Hussein effort to buy uranium in Africa was fake, a lawmaker said Thursday after a briefing by the nation’s intelligence chief. “At about the same time as the State of the Union address, they (Italy’s SISMI secret services) said that the dossier doesn’t correspond to the truth,” Sen. Massimo Brutti told journalists after the parliamentary commission was briefed.

The article then goes on to state who Brutti is:

Brutti, a leading opposition senator, said SISMI analyzed the documents between October 2002 and January 2003.

Hmmm. He is a "opposition Senator." I wounder what that really means.... If you Search Brutti, you will find this:

A so-named "First Report on the Intelligence and Security System" drawn up by left-wing senator Massimo Brutti, who belongs to the PDS (ex-communist) party, presents the Italian services in a very sorry light.

..A former Communist? How hard is it for the press to find some European Communist to denouce the Bush Administration. Not very hard. How is this news.... How pathetic is the journalist who wrote this story.