Who the hell hires this guy and for what?"""
Since the Bush administration itself now says, in effect, that Ritter was right -- no WMDs in Iraq -- I suspect Ritter may be rather marketable as an analyst.
WASHINGTON, Oct 8, 2004: US President George Bush has acknowledged that pre-war intelligence claiming Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was "wrong", but said his decision to invade Iraq was right. "Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there," he told reporters at the White House on Thursday evening. "The accumulated body of 12 years of our intelligence and that of our allies was wrong."
OF COURSE, RITTER TOLD THEM THERE WEREN'T WMDs THERE -- SO I COULD UNDERSTAND IF THERE ARE COMPANIES THAT WOULD WANT TO HIRE HIM; ON IRAQ, HE GOT THE RIGHT ANSWER BEFORE MOST OF US INTELLIGENCE DID