Posted on 01/25/2003 3:07:17 PM PST by kattracks
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal authorities have obtained the sealed records in the alleged Internet sex sting of former U.N. chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter to review for possible federal charges.
State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi signed an order Thursday requiring police and Albany County prosecutors to provide records and any evidence to the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office.
Federal authorities filed a motion earlier in the week to obtain the records to determine whether federal laws were violated, the Daily Gazette of Schenectady and the Times Union of Albany reported in Saturday editions.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Pericak refused to comment to the newspapers. A message to his office by The Associated Press was not immediately returned Saturday.
Ritter, 41, a critic of the Bush administration's push toward war with Iraq, acknowledged his June 2001 arrest this week in national television appearances but said he was prohibited from discussing details because the charges had been dismissed and the records sealed.
Ritter has suggested recent news reports about the arrest were an attempt to silence him. He said the publicity has forced him to cancel a recent trip to Baghdad, where he said he would have offered an alternative to military action.
Broadcast reports when he was arrested and recent newspaper reports have indicated Ritter was caught in an Internet sex sting, something he did not admit.
At the time of the arrest, NBC station WNYT-TV of Albany reported that William Scott Ritter Jr. -- Ritter's full name -- was charged with trying to lure an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl to a restaurant.
WNYT broadcast Ritter's mug shot but did not make the connection to his role as the chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq during most of the 1990s.
He was charged with attempted endangerment of a child, a misdemeanor that carries up to 90 days in jail, reports said. The case was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal, meaning that if he stayed out of trouble for six months, the charges would disappear and the file would be sealed.
His refusal to stand up for the helpless children in Saddam's children's prison makes his sex predator behavior all that much more believable and sinister....and worse terms that I don't think we have words for in the English language.
Hitlery Klintoon: "Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.""Ritter Speaks Out About the Right Wing Smear"
Ritter: "Again, I don't want to get into that, I think that is a question that maybe you journalists should be delving into more."
Interesting comparision, isn't it, on several levels:
1. They are blaming others for their own immoral, unethical, behavior; and
2. They are telling the media to go after those who "dare" hold them accountable for their immoral, unethical, behavior.
The other day when I read the "local court" dismissed the case and sealed the record, pending dismissal, I commented it was probably because it was in the hands of the Federal Court. I said if I wasn't mistaken internet child pronography, child alluring,etc; would be a Federal Offense.
I guess I was wrong in thinking they already had the case.
No wonder the Assistant DA got fired.
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Okay....we'll judge the judge later......when/if we find out more info. : )
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. So what kind of sick fuck think it's moral to hide the truth about children being tortured because it doesn't fit the ideology you're publically backing?
Is it anything to do with the $400,000 that he was paid by people close to the Iraqi government to produce a "documentary" showing that Iraq isn't a threat?"
Can he really be bought that cheaply?
I agree; TLB posted was I was commenting to.....TLB, do you have any other information about Ritter's refusal to comment on the child prisons...or even any other information about the child prisons from some other sources? I only first heard about this on Sean Hannity's show last week....he made a comment about prisons for babies/children.....it's shocking.
LOL...Pretty Crummie and Scuddy Boy...can we FReepers NAME 'em or what??
LOL; gotta love that one.
You weren't looking in the right place. Try the DU. That was one of many wild theories they had going on a thread a few days ago, where they were also accusing TLB and DFU of being the authors of the Ritter Smear Campaign. (and DFU of trashing Pitt on CNN)
Didn't the protesters last week claim that harm would come to Iraqi women and children if the US took action against Saddam? Looks like harm has already come to the children, at least. Of course didn't Hitlery's "its for the children" slogan only apply to children that might possibly be helped by her specific political agenda? The rest be damned, literally.
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