No- just making wild crap show claims— some of them probably hitting home on the “screw up Israel’s battle with Hamas” campaign— that is- screwing up the biden’s effort to screw the Israelis. Not that ritter is some kind of pro-israel guy— but he does have some protectors.
Recall the original UN inspector thing— he “erred” on- being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That gambit— which was needed to show to justify 10 plus years more of Iraq occupation (and we are still there, now- to keep the shiites from taking over the country- their original goal in war against Saddam Hussein).
Ritter repeatedly stated that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Because of the prevailing political climate in the United States at the time, Ritter was widely condemned for this position, which later proved to be largely accurate.
Ritter’s financier was Saddam Hussein through the middleman Shakir al Khafaji of Detroit, who along with the Hamas-connected al Hanooti, helped finance the Baghdad trip of three congressmen to beat with Saddam Hussein: Bonito, McDermott and Thompson.