[Samwise]

Maybe they paid him then.

and own him now.

Maybe he's compromised, but it's gotta be something major ... like something lurid involving Peter Arnett and a camel.

LOL

Or maybe he is just plain nuts...

[ArneFufkin]

He's not nuts, he's a con-man and operator IMO. Hume said that they had Ritter on payroll as a "Consultant" and they let him go because his sources, insider bona fides and audit trail on leads and authentic news weren't adding up.

He has no upside to getting behind Saddam right now. We're about to make that creep's brutal enterprise a defunct concern. Ritter is in his 30s, there's no bankroll that he could command now that would be worth the career obliteration he has undertaken. This clown could have sold his name to corporations and think tanks the rest of his life ... like Hackworth does, not saying that the Col. is corrupt in any way. HE'S JUST IRRELEVANT, he doesn't have any insight into Pentagon thinking anymore. Neither does Ritter, but that's a detail that usually escapes ditzy Cable TV news talk producers and the legions of CYA doorknobs who use our tax and shareholder money to enrich bullshit-artists working under the title "Consultant".

It's something he's afraid of IMO.

And, as long as I'm spewing conspiracy muck ... I think RuPaul and Dame Edna are really men.