“The media still doesn’t want to consider the possibility that he was blackmailed by Saddam into flipping his testimony.”
Or perhaps blackmailed by a domestic politician, one who could influence the police and courts into letting him stay free. The left invested lots in “Bush Lied”, and for Ritter to go around chirping that there was WMD in Iraq would spoil that investment. Not that Hussein was not involved too!
I’m not 100% sure but allegedly Saddam had quite a few EU politicians in his payroll as well, a very smart investment. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1300028/Did-Austrian-far-right-leader-Joerg-Haider-receive-funding-Saddam-Gaddafi.html