Ritter Says He Won't Be Silenced

Albany Times Union ^ | January 23, 2003 | Alan Wechsler

[Domestic Church]

Here's my take on the "Ritter flip-flop": Hussein et al took a lesson from the Klintons: plain old blackmail.

Yep...I even think they are in kahoots to a degree. The Clintons also received $$$ after 9/11 from OBL's family!

[lawdude]

He may not be silenced but he won't be heard. His credibility is GONE and no one will listen to his obviously lying rants!

[Domestic Church]

I'm starting to wonder what Hussein has on Blix now!

[Domestic Church]

"With all the Democrat party buddies Saddam has, nothing would surprise me."

BINGO!

[Domestic Church]

"If they know as much about him as I suspect they do, they could destroy him right now. If so, I also suspect they would rather use that info to turn him if at all possible."

Or he is a dead man walking (Saddam's not going to just stop payments...he's more thorough than that) and they are throwing out a life line which will benefit them.

[Tribune7]

Check this WND story

[Catspaw]

In the latest MSNBC article, Ritter is quoted: "I was, am and always will be an authority on issues pertaining to Iraq."

Scotty ought to look up "narcissism" in the dictionary.

[YaYa123]

I'm too pooped to see if this is already posted:

"MEDIA MATTERS
CNN admits sitting on Ritter story
'We'd rather be a little slow and 100 percent right'
Posted: January 23, 2003
3:52 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Cable News Network, which markets itself as "the world's news leader," says it sat on the Scott Ritter sex-scandal story for several days without a whisper of it, and other major news outlets have avoided extensive coverage – if any coverage – as well.

The former weapons inspector admitted on CNN's "Newsnight with Aaron Brown" program last night that he was in fact arrested in June 2001, but he refused to disclose if it had to do with allegations he was looking to meet underage girls from the Internet.

"For a couple of days we knew about the allegation and did not report it," said Brown at the top of his show. "Lots of notes [were sent] to us this week about why we were silent. Many – not all, but many assumed it was a political decision because some people see everything that way."

The Schenectady Daily Gazette and New York Daily News originally reported on Saturday and Sunday respectively that Ritter allegedly had an online sexual discussion with someone he thought was an underage girl. The "girl," however, turned out to be an undercover police investigator, according to the Daily News, whose sources spoke on condition of anonymity.

But the story has failed to gain much national publicity until now. In fact, a document search using the Lexis-Nexis archive system reveals the Associated Press national wire has still not published the Ritter sex scandal as of the posting of this article. The story has only hit the local and state AP wire in New York.

It has received coverage among Albany, N.Y., area media, and a few mentions on national programs such as the Rush Limbaugh radio show, and "Buchanan and Press" on MSNBC, which discussed the matter briefly yesterday with the news director of WNYT-TV, the station which had footage of Ritter's mug shot.

WorldNetDaily has done at least four stories following Ritter since the news broke last weekend.

CNN's Brown did provide an explanation as to the delay in the network's reporting of the matter:

"Whenever it's possible," said Brown, "we don't report what we, CNN, cannot confirm. In the case of the Ritter story, we worked it for a couple of days, trying to find the facts, but we were not willing to run with someone else's reporting.

"We needed to find sources. We needed to vet them as best we can. And when we as an organization are comfortable with what we know, then we report it. Now, it's not perfect. Sometimes we do rely on other reporting if we're unable to get to an area, for example.

"Sometimes we report what others have with an acknowledgment that the story is based on someone's other work, according to AP or according to 'The New York Times.' But that is more the exception than the rule. We do it because we are responsible for what we put on the air. It's really that simple.

"We have rules and standards. We know them, we're comfortable with them. Even when it means we sometimes get beat on a story. We'd rather be a little slow and 100 percent right."

[Catspaw]

I read the WND story. However, this doesn't explain why Fox News hasn't covered this story in depth (I've seen a restatement of previously published stories, references to it on Brit Hume's Grapevine and discussion about it on Fox & Friends, but they haven't done a truly independent story of their own on it) or why Fox News hasn't gotten an interview with Ritter. I expected more from Fox. (I'm not even mentioning MSNBC, because, frankly, who cares.)

Right after this story broke, I said that other news agencies would wait until the courts and other offices were open (Tuesday) to independently verify the story before they went it. And I was right--at least as far as CNN goes, but so far, Fox News has been all but MIA on this as a story. So far, only CNN has gotten the interview (I call the Catherine Crier "interview" with Ritter yesterday more of a smoochfest), and much to Ritter's surprise, Aaron Brown did a quiet, but devastating interview with Ritter. And I didn't see Ritter on any cable shows today (a rehash of Aaron Brown's interview was shown this morning & it was discussed on Fox & Friends), much less on any network news.

[Sloopy]

Thanks for the link to "Scott Ritter in his own words".

[Sloopy]

Scotty ought to look up "narcissism" in the dictionary.

There is such a thing as "Narcissist Personality Disorder", and he fits the description. I find it scary that a guy with this dysfunctional of a personality rose to such a position.

Also, this guy is supposed to be an INTELLIGENCE agent, and he fell for a local sting operation, not once but TWICE?

[Catspaw]

We had a client who was married to a guy with narcissist personality disorder, as well as a rage disorder (which also fits Ritter). I'm far too familiar with both.

[MissAmericanPie]

Of course this pawn won't be silenced, but there is not a thing he can do about being ignored.

[Rome2000]

"I'm very supportive of Scott, 100 percent or more," said his wife, Marina. "I'm very proud of him and everything that he has achieved."

She is rumored to be KGB.

Maybe Ritter and Michael Jackson will open a consulting business together.

[Sloopy]

We had a client who was married to a guy with narcissist personality disorder, as well as a rage disorder (which also fits Ritter). I'm far too familiar with both.

Yeah, I think I know one of these narcissists, so I've been reading up.

[Toddsterpatriot]

"I will continue to speak where I'm invited and permitted to speak," he said. "This will not silence me."

As long as he speaks from his cell, I'm all for the 1st Amendment.

[Toddsterpatriot]

In the latest MSNBC article, Ritter is quoted: "I was, am and always will be an authority on issues pertaining to Iraq."

He's also an authority on pedophilia, so if anyone has any questions about that, or about R.Kelly or Pete Townsend please give Scott a call.

[jim_trent]

Actually, you are wrong. Back in the 1988 campaign, the VP of the Libertarian party gave a speech in support of legalizing man-boy sex. The party platform back then supported legalizing all consensual sex, regardless of age (among other things). If that is not pedophilia, I don't know what is. The latest platform has toned that down a bit, but all you have to do is claim you are a Libertarian and other ones will defend you NO MATTER WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.

[Domestic Church]

From your link: "Last December, it was reported that the State Department and U.N. – without any background check – selected a munitions expert for the inspection team who had no specialized scientific degree and a leadership role in sadomasochistic sex clubs... A leading Iraq observer, Laurie Mylroie, who also serves as a Defense Department consultant, told WND that the best explanation for Ritter's reversal that she has heard is that, after he resigned and spoke out on Saddam's threat before the Senate, the Clinton administration turned on him."

She then speaks of the FBI going for the jugular on Ritter. So there has to been a Clinton-Saddam link as I had suspected...it's all too convenient that 9/11 occurred followed by the Venezuelan, North Korean and Iraqi flare-ups just after a Republican takes control of the White House. The Democrats are as much an enemy as Saddam! We could again be in a civil war here in the near future. Wake up America!!!

[Semper Paratus]

Ritter's wife probably could identify with Mrs. Oswald we she found out what a loser she married.