Report: Scott Ritter Snagged in Secret Sex Sting

NewsMax.com ^ | 1/19/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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Leading Bush Iraq policy critic Scott Ritter was reportedly arrested, charged and prosecuted in 2001 as part of a cybersex police sting after he engaged in a sex chat with an underage girl who later turned out to be an undercover cop.

Colonie Police in Albany County, where Ritter lives, said that the former U.N. weapons inspector "allegedly had a sexual discussion on the Internet" in June 2001 with the psuedo-underager, the New York Daily News said Sunday. But the case was mysteriously sealed and Colonie officials declined to release the arrest records.

The matter was adjourned in local court in contemplation of dismissal, law enforcement sources revealed on condition of anonymity.

Compounding the mystery: questions about why Ritter took such a high profile role as a leading critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy at a time when the embarrassing sex charges were still pending. Ritter had also come under fire late last year for taking $400,000 from a pro-Saddam Iraqi-American businessman to make a movie about Iraq.

While records of Ritter's cybersex prosecution were sealed, The Schenectady Daily Gazette reported on Saturday 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, the News said.

Clyne complained that since Ritter's case was "sensitive," he should have been briefed on the matter.

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[Diogenesis]

Was this engineered by the New York Murray-al Qaeda Democrats?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Maybe this partly explains why Scott seems to have such a hard-on about US policy.

[Zenith]

Thanks for posting this story !!
I always knew SCOTT RITTER had ghosts in the closet,His wife was also investigated for her Russian (Homeland)activism, the FBI, and CIA had a long investigation !

That could have been the reason for SCOTT to TURN against America !!
Search RITTER, NY Daily news.com

[SamAdams76]

Is anybody surprised?

[pgkdan]

Is anybody surprised?

Not me. curiouser and curiouser.

[Rome2000]

Nostrilitus ought to rent out that space to Goodyear, they need a hangar for the blimp.

[Eternal_Bear]

So who is framing him? The US Government? How could this turn him pro Saddam? It doesn't make much sense.

[Momaw Nadon]

[zarf]

Scott "I love young Tuna" Ritter is a whore in the first degree.

The guy's ego is out of control.

[leadpenny]

Limbacher filed this story at 8:53 this AM. Looks like he may have been reading some of the comments on the other thread already running on Ritter.

UN's Ritter faced sex rap

[Brytani]

BUMP!!! When is Fox going to report on this?

[Claire Voyant]

Is that a FAKE picture???

[nicmarlo]

When is Fox going to report on this?

My guess? When he$$ freezes over.

[Steve Eisenberg]

Time Magazine: You've spoke about having seen the children's prisons in Iraq. Can you describe what you saw there?

Scott Ritter: The prison in question is at the General Security Services headquarters, which was inspected by my team in Jan. 1998. It appeared to be a prison for children — toddlers up to pre-adolescents — whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was a horrific scene. Actually I'm not going to describe what I saw there because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I'm waging peace.

The peace of dying children, it seems.

[DManA]

So what dirt do the Iraqis have on him?

[Semper Paratus]

It figures, no self respecting 16 year old would be caught dead chatting with Ritter.

[meyer]

So what dirt do the Iraqis have on him?

I don't know if the Iraqis have any dirt (sand?) on him, but I suspect that he's had some interesting bank account activity over the last year or so. Only payola can make a man so persistantly wrong.

[demlosers]

Clyne complained that since Ritter's case was "sensitive," he should have been briefed on the matter.

So Clyne, does "sensitive" mean you like Ritter's politics and criticism of President Bush?