Posted on 01/19/2003 1:15:49 AM PST by kattracks
ALBANY - Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter was secretly prosecuted in Albany County in 2001 after he was snared in an Internet sex sting operation, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.Ritter, who lives in the Albany suburb of Delmar, is now a high-profile critic of President Bush's war preparations.
He was arrested by Colonie Police in June 2001 on a misdemeanor charge after he allegedly had a sexual discussion on the Internet with an undercover investigator he thought was an underage girl, law enforcement sources disclosed on condition of anonymity.
The case was sealed, and Colonie officials declined to release the arrest records, explaining the matter was adjourned in local court in contemplation of dismissal.
The Schenectady Daily Gazette reported yesterday that Albany District Attorney Paul Clyne fired veteran Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Preiser last week for failing to inform him of the case against Ritter.
Clyne said that as a "sensitive" case, it should have been brought to his attention.
Ritter, who has made frequent appearances on network television after speaking to the Iraq National Assembly last year, could not be reached for comment.
Joe Mahoney
Anything anti-Demonkrat and Pro-Bush is automatically more likely to you. You're a partisan.
In reality, it's equally likely as the other possibilities I have outlined. Because we don't have enough evidence yet.
If you don't understand that government, especially the Feds, can be underhanded, break the law, entrap people, blackmail, etc... they you are indeed very naive. Not to mention not attentive to posts on FR.
Has nothing to do with MY theory. (I don't have one as of yet - but I don't automatically lap up every press release that exists either.)
It has to do with your responses. Pavlovian. The press release fits your expectations of what you'd like to see (pro-Bush), so you lap it up.
BTW, can I mention here - so we don't have others errors compounded - that I don't particularly like Ritter, and lean heavily towards turning the MidEast into a glass parking lot?
Then why seal the records?
The simplest explanantion is that Ritter likes underage girls. This proclivity opens him up to all manner of blackmail.
Whether that actually happened I don't know but but believing it does not require a ream of tinfoil.
"You're kidding?!?!"
sorry, that didn't come out right. I meant to say - Why would it be a local prosecution, as opposed to a state one.
I didn't know that local resources were wasted in such a manner by local police.
At the moment, I'm leaning toward guilty, but framed - (the government knew of his inclinations, and chose to exploit it) but that's purely guessing on my part.
"Occam's razor" is a cry used to shortcut critical thinking. To shut off debate.
Conspiracies happen. Complex conspiracies happen. The government is filled with mean people with nasty agendas. (Take for example the entire Demonkratic party) Proof abounds, yet people run about screaming "Occam's razor" and playing ostrich.
Great questions, MM. I'd like to know the answers as well - they could explain a lot.
Another thing I don't understand is why the networks keep putting him on, when it's obvious his views are 180 degrees from what they were when he returned from Iraq. Maybe they think we have short memories?
You were right on the money on that. It first aired in January 1968. I spent most of 68 at Mare Island in C school.
Google had a ton of hits on it. Here's one:
From what I've seen you offer nothing but Hale?Bopp conjecture.
The simplest explanation is usually the correct one and it doesn't preclude you from conjecturing about a government conspiracy to shut Ritter up.
But the facts are not your friend here D.
This is ALWAYS the way the Big Boys control people. This kind of use of the executive branches of various governments is the foundation, walls, and ceiling of the power of scoundrels like Clinton. If you oppose them and you're pure and clean and incorruptable (as much as a human can be), or if you are so openly soiled that you have nothing to lose, they find a way of getting you on an airplane that crashes, or simply gun you down at an intersection, or have some scum mug you and kill you.
By the way, this underage stuff is the perfect tool, because to fight a charge means to expose yourself publicly, and people are loathe to expose themselves publicly even as a POSSIBLE pedophile, no?
I would like to adjust your statement about there being one party. I think a more accurate description of what happens in this country is what someone once said: "there may be two parties, and they may hate each other, but when it comes to corruption, they close ranks." I would also maintain that they close ranks when anyone insists they govern under the limitations of the Constitution (the refusal to do so is what makes all this corruption possible). The Liberterians would be pretty much just as bad if they were ever to get to office, because many of their candidates have no personal character, and would be compromised and tempted beyond their ability to resist, in our current evil climate.
That'll do.
My guess is that the "Hounds of Baskerville", or who ever, are running with their collective noses to the ground.
This is too tempting a story to be covered up by even the most liberal of the "media".
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