Ritter questions federal action

Albany Times Union ^ | January 26, 2002 | BOB GARDINIER

[nicmarlo]

Don't know if you saw this, but here's another article.

[TLBSHOW]

Your going to love this one.
I called my local paper (rat paper) and asked if they would be doing the Scott Ritter story. They said they hadn't seen it and they use AP so I directed them to it from AP and they said we still don't see it sorry. They said was there any thing new today. I directed them to the fed story and she came back and said nope I don't see it, sorry.

[NEPA]

I've been trying to keep up with all the Ritter stuff but may have missed something. How was the arrest info leaked? Who leaked it? I can't remember exactly how it all started.

[Jonah Hex]

"Sorry, Scott, I guess you'll have to start using the drive-through at Burger King from now on. You can't have it your way, perv."

[HAL9000]

I've been trying to keep up with all the Ritter stuff but may have missed something. How was the arrest info leaked? Who leaked it? I can't remember exactly how it all started.

When the arrest occurred, the local television station broadcast a news report on it and showed Ritter's mugshot. Amazingly, nobody at the station or in the viewing audience seemed to recognize him as the former U.N. weapons inspector, so it was a one-day story that did not receive national attention.

Perhaps someone saw the original report, then made the connection when Ritter started making numerous television appearances recently.

[nicmarlo]

Amazingly, nobody at the station or in the viewing audience seemed to recognize him as the former U.N. weapons inspector...

And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you in Jersey....

(am not disparaging Hal....I just find this incredible....I don't believe that no one "didn't know.")

[bvw]

Yeah, well there are nukes and nukes. Kilotonnage or Megatonnage? And when it goes off does it just go "boom -pfft", or "boom KA-MEGA-BLAST".

[Spunky]

And when it goes off does it just go "boom -pfft", or "boom KA-MEGA-BLAST".

I guess if I was hit by either one it wouldn't matter to me if it went "boom-pfft" or "boom Ka-Mega-blast" as I probably wouldn't know which way it sounded. :-)

[NEPA]

Thanks for the information. It makes sense. Still I wonder if someone didn't "file" it away for a convenient time.

Which is fine with me.

[bvw]

It matters a whole lot if your are a few blocks away.

[Question_Assumptions]

Someone on a talk radio asked if the Iraqi's had something on Ritter related to his legal problems. In other words, they wondered if he did anything like this in Iraq.

Thinking about that for a moment, I always thought it was strange how Ritter brought up children's prisons in Iraq as a sort of odd aside and then dropped it. Could it be that they aren't threatening him but someone else? This is simply idle speculation but that's what popped into mind when I tried to fit it all together.

[syriacus]

Someone on a talk radio asked if the Iraqi's had something on Ritter related to his legal problems. In other words, they wondered if he did anything like this in Iraq.

Maybe Jacques Chirac can get the answer to this question. After all he's been buddy-buddy with Saddam.

Chirac's nickname was "Sheikh Iraq"

Can Jacques Chirac Fill Charles De Gaulle's Shoes?, (1995)

While he is now [1995] billed in the French press as a Sinophile, in the 1970s Chirac enjoyed a reputation as an amateur Arabist. The rising Gaullist star went so far as to take Arabic lessons and, in a clever twist on his name, earned the media sobriquet "Sheikh Iraq" for his close personal ties with Saddam Hussain.

[finnman69]

It's impossible that someone with a mouth as big as that could keep quite.

[Terriergal]

the timing of this whole thing just stinks," Ritter said Saturday

Yeah... boo hoo. That cop showed up JUST at the wrong time, didn't she?

[RippleFire]

"I wish that everyone would understand how much the timing of this whole thing just stinks," Ritter said Saturday from his Delmar home.

From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/830375/posts

[Always Right]

I am real curious how many little boys or girls Saddam hooked Ritter up with???????

This could explain a lot of things about Ritter.

[1Old Pro]

related

College Trustees to meet today & discuss planned speech by pedophile Ritter.

[FR_addict]

Maybe the child welfare department in his area should look into his potential abuse of his own children.

How old are his twin daughters? Their welfare needs to be considered.

[Charlie OK]

"Anger is a gift" is a line from a Rage Against the Machine song. You know, these guys...

[smith288]

Ah... typical. You know whats pathetic... these commies got rid of their lead singer because he didnt fit their ideology or something... How friggin commie do you have to be?