Who was the U.N.Inspector compromised??

Wolfowitz speech transcript | 1-23-03 | Dog

[cyncooper]

At what point in time do we look a traitor in the eye and have the gonads to bring them to justice?

The administration plans to follow this through is what I'm suggesting here.

I appreciate your thoughts in this post. I pray your conclusion is correct.

[Deb]

The Bush people covering anything up in Albany is absurd. New York corruption is run by the Democrats and Hillary's people are everywhere upstate. Nothing could have possibly gone on without someone from the Democrat machine finding out and turning it into a media volcano to bring Bush down ala Nixon.

And remember, at the time these things happened the FBI and Justice were crawling with Clinton holdovers.

[The Great Satan]

There is no way Clinton's people could make a credible threat to blackmail Ritter over this incident -- even assuming they would want to try, which is a big stretch -- given the fact that Ritter was already under FBI surveillance, already a suspected agent of a foreign power, his picture and name had already gone out on TV with respect to the arrest, multiple law enforcement officials were aware of what he had done, the arrest, charges and disposition of the case were already in the official record, and Ritter's "turn" on Iraq had started several years previous. Obviously, Bush himself would have no rationale for blackmailing Ritter into becoming an administration critic, so that doesn't make sense either. Therefore the whole notion that Ritter was being blackmailed by US political forces is a non-starter.

We can speculate that in the peripheral matter of the disposition of this case, either Ritter got a pass from a politically sympathetic ADA, or said ADA was instructed by the FBI on behalf of the administration to keep Ritter in play because he was subject of a larger and far more important national security sting. In either case this is speculation, and pertains to very secondary matters, not the issue of how Ritter was turned from a Saddam liability to a Saddam asset, which must have its roots elsewhere. It is also not at all clear that Ritter was given special treatment in this case, no matter how many people here would like to believe so.

[Deb]

A local female ADA "sympathetic" to a sexual predator? Don't think so.

Just like the Castro/Democrat connection in relation to Elian and his Dad, I no longer believe anything is impossible.

There's a passage in "The Sword and the Shield" that talks about the Democrat Congressmen who were favorites of the KGB...Ted Kennedy, John Conyers, Alan Cranston to name a few. The Russians have been on the side of Iraq for decades and always play both sides of any conflict with them.

With very few exceptions, members of the Democrat party are dedicatedly anti-US and as they display everyday for the world to see, are consistantly on the side of any enemy of America.

You underestimate the power and evil of the true believers in the Democrat party.

[The Great Satan]

You underestimate the power and evil of the true believers in the Democrat party.

Doesn't matter. The scenario doesn't make sense, for the reasons I outlined in my last post.

[Deb]

We'll see. FBI files have a way of landing in strange places. It will be interesting to see the back story on this. Bill Sammon or someone will write the book.

[2Smart2BLiberal]

I'm wondering just when Ritter found out that incriminating tapes existed. It must not have been until fairly recently when SOMEONE decided they would pay him a little visit, or slip some pics to him in the mail. It seems that Saddam was biding his time until Ritter could be used as a useful tool of propaganda. I must say, Ritter gave it his best shot -- fooled a lot of people, gave the "peace" movement some ammunition. I even wondered if certain Democrats may have unleashed Ritter as their own weapon of propaganda against Bush.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..the Bush administration had and has nothing to gain and everything to lose when Ritter began his anti-America tirades just after 9/11...

Now, let's just think about that for a moment, Cake. This is what the Bush administration could have gained, if my scenario's got any legs:

1. a high profile operative in the opposition peace movement, able to report back on who's who and who's doing what;

2. an American with access to the highest echelons of the Iraqi leadership;

3. a double agent, who the Iraqis think they control

4. the ability to undercut the antiwar movement at the penultimate moment by showing that their most high profile member has a dirty secret.

Now can you please tell me where the downside is, in all that?