THE OFFICIAL "KEEP UP WITH RITTER STORIES" THREAD (All stories here)

dfu | 1-20-03 | dfu

[doug from upland]

Okay. Someone has to do this so that we can keep track.

On this thread, please give links for all the stories in print, in the news, on the radio, on the TV, and on the internet about Scott Ritter and the possible arrest.

[cyncooper]

And as another freeper mentioned, they have a guest commentator who says:

Alan Chartock tells Ed Dague it's important to separate the man from the message.

Where have we heard THAT before? The old "compartmentalization" thingy.

I don't see it flyin' this time.

[TLBSHOW]

What did he say. Times like this makes me wish I had a TV.

[sweetliberty]

I couldn't quote word for word but basically he said what had happened about Ritter being arrested and all about chatting on the internet and arranging a meeting at Burger King with what he thought to be an underaged girl that turned out to be a cop and said that not only was he a dirty old man, but he was a CHEAP dirty old man.

[TLBSHOW]

oh so he was going to treat her to the 99 cent meal! lol

[jdontom]

grasswire (2255 posts)

Jan-20-03, 06:48 PM (ET)

1. remember....

...what freeper Doug from Upland did to Will Pitt just last week.

From DUm......Keep up the good work Doug........

[doug from upland]

All Doug from Upland did was to make sure the producer of Aaron Brown's show saw the words of Will Pitt. Pitt did it to himself, much like Scott Ritter wanted to do it to himself while a 14-year-old girl ate her kid's meal and watched. What a tag team combo.

[AF68]

Alan Chartock tells Ed Dague it's important to separate the man from the message.

Yeah, it worked for the Sinkmeister but Ritter ain't no Slick Willie. It looks like Ritter really pulled a boner this time.

[GirlShortstop]

It looks like Ritter really pulled a boner this time.

He did?!   I thought he got arrested before he could do so!    ©¿©

[Helifino]

I'm not sure, but I think they want to hear from us.

 

http://www.greatertalent.com/bios/ritter.shtml

SCOTT RITTER
Former U.N. Weapons Inspector to Iraq

 

Exclusive Representation by Greater Talent Network, Inc.

 

 

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I thought that Pitt's reaction to the CNN deal was the actions of a complete nutbar.
Did he think Brown is an idiot who can't judge a malicious attack from facts? So is Pitt maintaining just because he wrote those opinions about CNN doesn't mean that he meant them?

[xm177e2]

The timing of this article is interesting. Was this information deliberately released now in order to demoralize the appeasement movement just before the start of the war? This, the nuke plan find, the continuing increase in sending troops to the Middle East, and the upcoming State of the Union address all point to WAR.

[ApesForEvolution]

Well done RD!

[ApesForEvolution]

You get the tar and hold CRitter down....I'll run and get the feathers.

[nicmarlo]

I see that even Leno picked up on this story now.

I saw that thi a.m.....Fox and Friends played it....Leno told the story about meeting the girl in the parking lot....then said he thought maybe Ritter, the weapons insepector, wanted to have "his weapon investigated." And Judge Napolitano today said morally, Ritter lied; legally, he may not have, IF Ritter went through the expungement process----we don't know if he did.

[Greybird]

The timing of this article is interesting.

It certainly is.

[Wondervixen]

You'd think Paul Shanklin would be working right now on a Ritter send up...How's about a parody of Britney Spears "OOOPS, I DID IT AGAIN"?

[cyncooper]

Poor deluded Justin.

So he thinks Scott Ritter was "set up" way back in June, 2001, does he?

Um, does Justin know about Ritter being caught a couple months before that and being let off with a warning and then continuing the behavior, resulting in the June arrest?

Here's a clue: Ritter was indulging in this behavior because of his own choice. Then he goes about claiming some kind of moral high-ground and has been exposed, and rightly so, as the unbalanced person without moral standing that many on Free Republic have observed for months. We are validated and if Justin was looking to Scott Ritter as a voice in the anti-war movement--a voice of a person who had no discernable access to reliable and up-to-date information--then he was relying on the wrong guy.

[cyncooper]

And I might add, it wouldn't matter to those who choose to look the other way when someone they look to as a voice for their postion is exposed. There would always be some circumstance they could contrive to state "the timing is certainly interesting".

Face it. Ritter got caught (twice that we know of) and it came out. Good.

[CobaltBlue]

UPI has picked up the story.

Ritter has no comment on sex sting

From the National Desk
Published 1/22/2003 9:39 AM
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ALBANY, N.Y., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter refused to comment on reports
that he had been arrested in an Internet sex sting.

"Sorry, you must have the wrong person," Ritter told the Schenectady (N.Y.) Daily Gazette, which broke the story.

Ritter was in San Diego promoting his book, "Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis," but his wife told WNYT-TV that they had no comment.

The Daily Gazette reported that Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne fired a veteran assistant district attorney last week for failing to inform him of a "sensitive" case.

Clyne refused to comment on the Ritter case but he told the Albany Times Union, "Based on an inquiry, I determined that I should have been apprised of the existence of the case, and I was not, so Cindy Preiser was fired for failure to keep me abreast of what was going on in Colonie court."

The arrest occurred in June 2001 in the Albany suburb of Colonie after Ritter allegedly arranged to meet with whom he thought was 16-year-old girl he had met on an Internet chat room, who was in reality an undercover police officer.

Ritter was arrested for attempted child endangerment, a class B misdemeanor, but Ritter's attorney and a Colonie Court judge agreed "to adjourn the matter in contemplation of a dismissal," according to the Schenectady Gazette.

Generally, if there are no more allegations against the defendant for the next 6 months, the case is dismissed and the record sealed. According to WTEN-TV, Ritter underwent court-ordered sex offender counseling from an Albany psychologist.

Although the court record is sealed, WNYT-TV reported that in 2001 the television station had made a report that a 39-year-old William Ritter of Delmar had been arrested on charges he attempted to lure an underage girl he met on the Internet to a fast-food restaurant.

Ritter, a 41-year-old native of Gainesville, Fla., whose full name is William Scott Ritter Jr., has lived in the Albany suburb of Delmar with his wife and their twin daughters for two years. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Gulf War. After the war, he left the Marines and became a U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.

The Colonie arrest was under the name William Ritter. Norah Murphy, Ritter's attorney, confirmed her client was arrested in June 2001, but refused further comment.

According to a report in the Albany Times Union, the June 2001 arrest was not William Ritter's first brush with the law. In April 2001, William Ritter attempted to meet whom he thought was 14-year-old girl he met online but was an undercover police officer posing as an underage minor. He was met at the meeting place by police officers but released without being charged.

During the administration of Bill Clinton, Ritter was an outspoken critic because "Iraq was winning its bid to retain its prohibited weapons."

A CNN report in 1998 said that Iraqi officials blocked Ritter's team from conducting searches of possible Iraqi weapons sites claiming Ritter was a spy for the U.S. CIA, a charge the United Nations and the United States denied.

At that time, the U.N. Security Council approved a statement "deploring" the Iraqi move to block Ritter's team and then President Clinton said Iraqi officials would not be allowed to decide the makeup of inspection teams.

Ritter resigned from the United Nations in 1998 because he felt "Iraq remained insufficiently disarmed and ready to restart its nuclear and biological weapons programs."

The 6-foot, 4-inch former Marine, changed his view on Iraq and became a regular on network and cable news programs criticizing President George W. Bush and calling for his impeachment for putting members of the American military in a war he considers "illegal and based on a foundation of lies." He says that Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons program either accounted for or destroyed.

Ritter explained his reasons for his change of heart in the documentary "In Shifting Sands," that he wrote and directed. A wealthy Iraqi-American businessman, Shakir al Khafaji, has reportedly funded $400,000 toward the 91-minute account of the U.N. weapons inspection team in Iraq, known as UNSCOM.

The former inspector also spoke before the Iraq National Assembly last September urging Iraq to allow weapons inspectors to return.

Ritter called the U.N. weapons inspector's recent discovery of empty warheads in Iraq as "an accounting problem," and an indication that the weapons inspectors were doing their job.

"Iraq should take a more proactive action and send military officers to every ammunition depot and open up every box to ensure this never again happens and give a full accounting," Ritter said on CNN last Friday.

However, Ritter has said that if the inspectors find evidence that Iraq is attempting to procure or manufacture or has manufactured and is hiding an active chemical agent, "Then we have a right to presume ill intent on the part of Saddam Hussein and hold them to account."

Copyright © 2001-2003 United Press International

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030122-091722-8355r

[RepublicanHippy]

I just checked my email (not connected to FR) and found a new message from someone I do not know, someone named "Paul Conti". The subject is RE: Scott Ritter tape. I have not opened it because it might be a virus or something.I have not posted in any chatrooms or looked at any other news source for info on Scott Ritter so I do not know why this person would have sent me this message. Has anyone else received an email message like this?