Born in Alcamo, in the Southern Italy region of Sicily, Rocca graduated in jurisprudence at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

Until December 2013, he wrote a music column entitled Gommalacca each Sunday for the Sole 24 Ore, and since February 2012 he is the director of the magazine IL, the monthly insert of the same newspaper.

During the radio broadcast Stampa e regime, Bordin revealed Rocca's frequentations with Nicolò Pollari and Pio Pompa at the Sismi headquarters relating the articles written about the Nigergate case.

[3] On the following day, the strife was commented on Il Foglio by Ferrara, who said that Rocca's sources were "the official reports of the American Senate and of the various commissions of inquiry of the United Kingdom about the different scandals linked to that event", and that the meeting with Pollari and Pompa had taken place only after the publication of the articles.

[4] The newspapers la Repubblica and il Fatto Quotidiano, quoting the same article written by Ferrara, spoke of a campaign of disinformation in favour of SISMI against the surveys carried out by Giuseppe D'Avanzo and Carlo Bonini on the Nigergate.