Scott Ritter Speaks Out On 2001 Arrest - Offers his first public comments on controversy

WNYT-TV, Albany ^ | January 22, 2003

[Shermy]

ALBANY, N.Y., Jan. 22 - Until now, former U.N. weapon's inspector Scott Ritter has declined to speak about allegations he was arrested in an Internet sex sting 19 months ago. However, NewsChannel 13 reached Ritter by phone Wednesday and for the first time he discussed the arrest and the sealed court documents.

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"The case was dismissed. Therefore it never happened," Ritter said Wednesday.

"I stood in a court of law, before a judge and an assistant district attorney, and they dismissed it," he added.

But the court of public opinion has a different view. The story of Ritter's arrest and the subsequent dismissal of his case first broke over the weekend and dominated headlines in the days that followed.

"I am deeply saddened [by all of the media attention]. Not by anything I've done though."

Ritter refused to speak to NewsChannel 13 on camera. When offered the chance to tell his side of the story on television, he replied, "I'm saying it now."

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[AdA$tra]

Think the leak of Ritter's run-in with the law might have been for the purpose of preventing his trip to Iraq?

It certainly renders him more irrelevent than he already was.

[Wait4Truth]

Boy, we sure didn't hear all this whining when the RATS dug up the 25 year old DUI on George W. Bush, did we?

[aristeides]

Do we know yet how old Marina Ritter was when Scott Ritter married her in 1991?

[spectre]

Oh yaya, I've got it on TAPE, and catherine crier said "the judge who sealed the case basically worked for this President"....She out and out accused the Bush administration of leaking this for the timing because Ritter opposed the war in Iraq.

She asks "does it sound suspicious to you?"...She is curious to read information about the judge's connection to being a Bush activist.

She doesn't give a damn about Ritter being a child molester. She won't shut up about the political timing..NOOO. It's all about politics with her.

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[Deb]

Since all this happened in Albany, I'll bet anything that The Hairy Hand of Harold Ickes turns out to be at the bottom of the police sting and the political conversion of Hot Scott Ritter.

Ickes is the mastermind behind all the really evil Democrat stuff. Just like his Dad was the mole in the Roosevelt White House. Carville, Blumenthal and the Clintons all take their orders from Ickes.

[aristeides]

This morning on Fox news, Judge Nepolitano, a fixture on Fox talk shows, said the action that was taken in the Ritter case actually allows him to deny that he was ever arrested if asked. Such is the law.

We learned that a few years ago when the same information came out about the old charge against Linda Tripp.

[spectre]

I got it on tape, should I go back and count the number of times she accused the Administration of leaking this news?

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[Southack]

"Remember the UN hired that S & M guy as a current inspector (probably everyone has made this observation, but I been gone). What's the deal with perverts and the UN?"

The "deal" is that certain governments want to stack the weapons inspection process with people who have already been "compromised" by their Intelligence agencies, such that the desired words will be uttered from their mouths at the appropriate times.

[AdA$tra]

spectre's wife

Now that's a great use for a tag line!

[Dog]

LOL!

We need to do a caption this thread...

[Howlin]

Can you do that? Would you do that? It was shocking.

[Lancey Howard]

Around here, when you are arrested for DUI, if it is your first offense you can get "ARD" - - Advanced Rehabilitative Disposition. You complete drunk driving class and your case is dismissed. Then, after three years the files are expunged and you have no "convictions" on your record - - just like it never happened.

I think Ritter has taken this idea, processed it through the demented mind of a pedophile, and decided that "let's pretend" is indeed reality. He is saying, "Even though I was caught trolling the internet for 14 year-old girls to lure them to Burger King parking lots so they could watch me play with myself, the case was dismissed, and so I never trolled the internet for 14 year-old girls to lure them to Burger King parking lots so they could watch me play with myself."

This guy Ritter is sick and dangerous. It will be interesting to see if any network has the gall to put him on the air again for a serious interview about Iraq.

[ikka]

I wonder if he would have talked to someone from say, NewsChannel 28; maybe the reporter said "newschannel 13" and Ritter got his hopes up enough that the reporter could get in a few questions before his brain got in gear....

[aristeides]

So Crier knows who the judge is, apparently? How does she know, if his identity has not been revealed publicly?

[Deb]

Just like the Democrat party.

[spectre]

LOL, AdA! Poor guy, he's got so much to live down with my posts!

OK, Howlin. I'll try to be accurate. Going to tape..see ya in a few.

[billhilly]

It seems to be ineffective, does it not?

[aristeides]

Is there a connection between Ickes and Albany?

Got any sources about the elder Ickes being a mole (of the Soviets, I take it) in the FDR administration? I knew he was a red-hot leftist, but the big shot in that administration that has been most identified as a mole is Harry the Hop Hopkins (who actually lived in the White House all through WWII).

[cynicom]

Who is to say there are not other records elsewhere???

[The Great Satan]

Think the leak of Ritter's run-in with the law might have been for the purpose of preventing his trip to Iraq?

Doubt it. This is hardly the first time Ritter's been to Iraq. If anything, I'd be more suspicious of the timing after the "peace" rallies last weekend. Ritter has done the administration an enormous service by getting out in front of the "peace movement" and becoming they're greatest spokesman. He's been a pied piper, leading his leftist followers straight off a cliff. I've little doubt that the feds and the administration have known about Ritter's pecadilloes for some time -- they may well have set up the entrapment in 2001. This release could be "accidental," or it could be that Bush figured it was time to lower the boom on Scotty Boy. Either way, the "peace movement" just got a serious poke in the eye. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of liars, misfits, cowards and traitors.