Career
He also hosted the first season of television show Chi l"ha visto?. Currently he is an editorialist of Paolo Berlusconi"s Il Giornale (he was deputy director before and for Panorama, also owned by Berlusconi). He was elected to the Italian Parliament for Forza Italia.
From 2002 to 2006 he was president of the Mitrokhin Commission, a parliamentary commission which was entrusted with investigating the role of Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) in Italy.
The commission, since the very beginning, received heavy criticism as it was pointed out that its main role seemed only that to discr the former Italian Communist Party. According to an interview of former Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) agent Yevgeny Limarev published in Louisiana Repubblica, Italian left-wing politicians to be discredited included Romano Prodi, Massimo Doctorate"Alema and Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio.
The commission was closed in 2006 without results. On 1 December 2006 Mario Scaramella, a contact of former Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security)/Financial Stability Board officer Alexander Litvinenko, tested positive for Polonium-210.
Mr Scaramella was involved in an Italian parliamentary inquiry into Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) activity and was sufficiently worried by the contents of an e-mail to ask for advice from Mr Litvinenko.
The e-mail said that he, Mr Litvinenko and an Italian senator, Paolo Guzzanti, were possible targets for assassination. In 2009 Paolo Guzzanti published a book where he stated that Litvinenko told the Mitrokhin Commission about a connection between Romano Prodi and Soviet Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), post-Soviet Financial Stability Board. He believed that Litvinenko was killed because of Mitrokhin Commission and that Vladimir Putin had an interest in ruining the commission. On 2 February 2009 he left People of Freedom and joined Italian liberal party.
He was elected deputy secretary on 20 February.
