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Scott Ritter Speaks Out On 2001 Arrest - Offers his first public comments on controversy
WNYT-TV, Albany ^
| January 22, 2003
Posted on 01/22/2003 2:30:38 PM PST by 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.
...snip...
"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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To: Howlin
And you know if he's done it twice, he's done it more than that.And he mave been "successful" in some attempts...
To: Dog
She flat out said that the judge was hired by Bush to do to Florida for the recount and "maybe" that's why this was leaked now, because Ritter is so critical of the president.
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:47:26 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Fly your flag in support of President Bush's State of the Union Speech)
To: spectre
I am shocked at those remarks. Is she always like that?
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:48:03 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Fly your flag in support of President Bush's State of the Union Speech)
To: Shermy
"The case was dismissed. Therefore it never happened," Ritter said Wednesday. never happened????
Something tells me old Scott has been doing this short of stuff for a very long time
This Sick Piece of Crap doesn't think he did anything wrong
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:48:15 PM PST
by
Mo1
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To: Howlin
Can't get Scott Ritter back...awhhh.
Scott did NOT deny wanting to do the big "nasty". He just said he wasn't charged..and the records are sealed.
He did it! Or wanted too.
No doubt about it. sw
45
posted on
01/22/2003 2:48:32 PM PST
by
spectre
To: Senator Pardek
It's like it never even happeneded.
46
posted on
01/22/2003 2:48:33 PM PST
by
dead
To: Howlin
they should address porn-boy's motives not the judges
47
posted on
01/22/2003 2:48:46 PM PST
by
Taffini
To: Howlin
The Judge was in FLA during the recount??
48
posted on
01/22/2003 2:49:11 PM PST
by
Dog
(TAG LINE SALE: Bargain basement prices all inventory must go --- -- Fast Doggies used tag lines.)
To: AdA$tra
The case was dismissed. Therefore it never happened It all depends upon your definition of "it". Scott did not say, "Nothing happened." And had the case not been dismissed he couldn't weasel out with "therefore..."
We're back to "where were you on the night of...". Or "What was the agreed upon statement of facts that did not rise to the level of criminality which justified the dismissal". Or we could ask, "How much of Saddam's chump change did you have to share with the ex-ADA"?
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:49:24 PM PST
by
Procyon
To: Petronski
That's something like saying "I was acquitted so the crime never happened."It doesn't even rise to that level. Ritter copped a plea: he took counseling in exchange for getting his record expunged. It's not like he ever claimed to be innocent of the charge. Yeah, legally he has no priors, but the reality is he was caught soliciting a minor. Twice.
To: Sloopy
well he is dumb enough to say that Iraq is not a problem, and dumb enough to totally change his mind. This whole thing is not adding up.
To: Howlin
Yes, she's a smiley faced Liberal Shrill..witch.
sw
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:49:56 PM PST
by
spectre
To: freeper12
...and OJ was innocent too... Not only that, it "never happened".
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:50:26 PM PST
by
amused
(socialism is totalitarianism in sheep's clothing)
To: Shermy
I've seen quite a few rap sheets over the years and believe me EVERY arrest stays on there even juvenile stuff. So, it's not GONE.
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:50:38 PM PST
by
baldy
To: Howlin
Catherine Crier suspects this was "leaked" at this time........ha! Doubtful. Would have been leaked when he was in Iraq, or speaking with the Labor party in England.
I think this is the scenario...Daily Gazette reporter hears rumor locally (amazing it was quiet for so long!). Asks for the court record. Comes to local DA's attention. Fires the assistant who made the secret deal. (There was also a similar local complaint about a secret case against a doctor.) The first stories focused on the firing of the assistant, Ritter just part of the background.
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:51:08 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: Howlin
Has the judge been identified yet?
To: Just mythoughts
Maybe he is saying he was set up.
Bitch set me up!
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:53:03 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
To: Shermy
Drats! I think Ritter was just on CourtTV, by phone, talking to Catherine Crier. I missed it. When I flipped in, Crier was bemoaning the likely possibility that a Ritter enemy dug up the old information to discredit him. lah dee da Miss Crier...did you do da moan thing when Jane Mayer dug up the decades old info on Linda Tripp?
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:53:30 PM PST
by
YaYa123
To: Mo1; Howlin
This Sick Piece of Crap doesn't think he did anything wrongIt's the same with all of these pedophiles. The children 'seduced them', don't you know?! My guess is that Ritter found out that Iraq had the goods on him about this perversion, and that explains his switch on the Iraqi WMD!!
To: Shermy
"The case was dismissed. Therefore it never happened" My amateur diagnosis is: Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
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posted on
01/22/2003 2:53:50 PM PST
by
Sloopy
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