Posted on 01/19/2003 1:15:49 AM PST by kattracks
ALBANY - Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter was secretly prosecuted in Albany County in 2001 after he was snared in an Internet sex sting operation, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.Ritter, who lives in the Albany suburb of Delmar, is now a high-profile critic of President Bush's war preparations.
He was arrested by Colonie Police in June 2001 on a misdemeanor charge after he allegedly had a sexual discussion on the Internet with an undercover investigator he thought was an underage girl, law enforcement sources disclosed on condition of anonymity.
The case was sealed, and Colonie officials declined to release the arrest records, explaining the matter was adjourned in local court in contemplation of dismissal.
The Schenectady Daily Gazette reported yesterday that Albany District Attorney Paul Clyne fired veteran Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Preiser last week for failing to inform him of the case against Ritter.
Clyne said that as a "sensitive" case, it should have been brought to his attention.
Ritter, who has made frequent appearances on network television after speaking to the Iraq National Assembly last year, could not be reached for comment.
Joe Mahoney
Nooooooooo... but I'm not running around like a partisan trying to blame Hitlery, either.
But you keep avoiding that there's no way that Ritter could even sneeze without Federal agents knowing about it. The same Federal agents who now answer to Bush. Perhaps this is a red herring. Or not. YOU don't know any more than I do.
No, but I know not to let partisanship cloud my thinking. BOTH sides are capable of being bad apples.
The wife connection is interesting. Perhaps there's an external threat.....
That I am.
Ummm no, because I haven't slandered.
But if it didn't come from Saddam, this is the first I've heard of it. Please present a reference or evidence.
I'm as anti-sheep as you can get.... without wanting to start hunting them.
Produce one post where I said that child sex photos should be legal to possess, liar.
Well, I get it from this. My mistake. I thought it required payment.
To quote an 'unimpeachable source':
You then went on to claim that at most the issue is merely one of copyright infringement! Perhaps next you will claim in a Clintonian way that child pornography does not depict sexual acts.
Is the possession of child pornography a crime? Either/Or. Choose. Now.Is it? Yes.
Should it be? No.
Oh Scott Ritter was all over the TV shortly after the first inspections were stopped. See Senate hearing link below. Then he made a 360 turnaround and went to Iraq and made a documentary. See link below
I think the traitor has been under watchful eyes.
MR. RITTER: Mr. Chairman, members of the committee; last week I resigned my position out of frustration that the United Nations Security Council, and the United States as its most significant supporter, was failing to enforce the post-Gulf War resolutions designed to disarm Iraq. I can speak to you today from firsthand experience about the effectiveness of American policy or lack thereof, with respect to the United Nations's effort to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. I sincerely hope that my actions might help to change things.It was very sad to hear the secretary of State on Tuesday night giving an interview from Moscow challenging my credentials. She told the world through CNN that Scott Ritter doesn't have a clue about what our overall policy has been, that we are the foremost supporters of UNSCOM. I do have a clue, in fact several, all of which indicate that our government has clearly expressed its policy in one way and then acted in another. Such clues include various statements by the secretary of State, a report to Congress on 6 April by the president of the United States and several statements made to me and to other UNSCOM officials at a variety of inter-agency briefings held at the State Department, the Pentagon and the White House. If these were the only clues, the administration's record would be impressive. However, I can say without fear of contradiction and with the confidence that most of my former colleagues agree with me that those clues derive from the practical experience obtained on the ground in Iraq and behind the scenes at the United Nations tell another story: that the United States has undermined UNSCOM's efforts through interference and manipulation, usually coming from the highest levels of the administration's national security team, to include the secretary of State herself. Iraq today is not disarmed, and remains an ugly threat to its neighbors and to world peace. Those American who think that this is important and that something should be done about it have to be deeply disappointed in our leadership. I'm here today to provide you with specific details about the scope and nature of interference by this administration in UNSCOM, the debilitating effect that such interference has on the ability of UNSCOM to carry out its disarmament mission in Iraq and to appeal to the administration and to the Senate to work together to change America's Iraq policy back to what has been stated in the past: full compliance with the provisions of Security Council resolutions, to include enabling UNSCOM to carry out its mission of disarmament in an unrestricted, unhindered fashion.
Ritter Senate Testimony 9/3/1998
"Former weapons inspector Scott Ritter has said that Saddam is not a threat;that while he was an inspector about 95 percent of his (WMD) capability was destroyed," Russert announced.But while the former Marine who was booted out by Iraq in 1998 continues to be cited reverentially by Russert and others, they never seem to get around to mentioning Ritter's reported involvement in a pro-Iraq movie deal that depends on financing from an Iraqi-American supporter of Saddam Hussein."The U.S. will definitely not like this film," Ritter himself admitted to the Weekly Standard last November, as he described a return trip to Baghdad in July 2000 that was accomplished with Saddam's blessing.He was visiting the terrorist state to work on his documentary film, "In Shifting Sands," the goal of which was to chronicle the weapons-inspection process and, according to Ritter, "de-demonize" Iraq.
Scott Ritter In Pro-Iraq Movie Deal
Saddam's one-time nemesis managed to secure the unprecedented access through the help of Shakir al-Khafaji, an Iraqi-American real estate developer who ponied up $400,000 for Ritter's movie.
Ritter confessed that al-Khafaji, who accompanied him to Iraq, is "openly sympathetic with the regime in Baghdad." The well-connected businessman was apparently instrumental in getting him interviews with top Iraqi officials.
Of naked pictures, No.
But possession of SEX pictures are EVIDENCE OF A FELONY. It's like possessing photos of a murder. You can't do that....
Your way has parents who have innocent pictures of their kids at the mercy of the police and a jury. A photo of this type CANNOT Be (morally) illegal. You cannot make it illegal to view a naked child, or you'd have to arrest parents for bathing their kids. A thing cannot be legal when one person holds it, and illegal the second that he hands it to his neighbor.
But then, that's not your point. Your point is to try to use whatever you can to drive anti-government posts from the forum.
And I'm going to stick it to you ever chance I get, without budging. Count on it.
Scott Ritter In Pro-Iraq Movie Deal
Article contains above quotes about source of funds. It didn't come from Saddam, but the difference is merely one of degree.
I am pretty sure I saw him several times in connection to the documentary he was making which was 2000-2001.
I have NEVER claimed that child sex pictures should be legal to possess. They are evidence of a crime, and should be confiscated.
I guess the Koran doesn't have a prohibition on lying, eh, Jihadi?
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