Ex-US intel officer: Pompeo ‘lying through his teeth’ on Iran

Submitted by CCRider

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Crawfisher
Crawfisher
January 13, 2020 8:24 am

I though this guy’s name was familiar…Scott Ritter, credible commentator!

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Scott-Ritter-paroled-in-online-sex-case-5936227.php

Scott Ritter paroled in online sex case
Former U.N. weapons inspector imprisoned for contact with minor

Dec. 4, 2014
Updated: Dec. 4, 2014 8:20 p.m.

Scott Ritter, the former United Nations weapons inspector who was arrested and imprisoned for unlawful contact with a minor, has returned to Bethlehem.

Ritter was paroled from state prison in Pennsylvania in September. A call to his home wasn’t returned on Thursday.

A vocal critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Ritter has resumed his trenchant writing on U.S. policy in the Middle East: He has authored at least three online articles for Huffington Post since October, including one warning that the creation of a U.S.-backed “Free Syrian Army” represents a “figment of American creative thinking.”

Ritter, 53, was an intelligence officer in the Marine Corps and then a weapons inspector for the U.N.

Scott Ritter, former chief United Nations weapons inspector, walks through the Monroe County courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pa., on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. The sentencing phase of his trial on unlawful contact with a minor began Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Pocono Record, David Kidwell)
Scott Ritter, former chief United Nations weapons inspector, walks through the Monroe County courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pa., on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. The sentencing phase of his trial on unlawful contact with a minor began Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Pocono Record, David Kidwell)
Upon leaving the U.N., he criticized the organization for not enforcing disarmament in Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War.

But as the U.S. was preparing to invade in 2003, Ritter gained prominence for his contention that the country had no real weapons of mass destruction.

Later the same year, Ritter made headlines when news surfaced that he had been caught in a police sting in 2001.

Police said that he had tried to lure a 16-year-old girl — actually a Colonie undercover officer posing online — to a Burger King in Menands. That case was later adjourned in contemplation of dismissal — essentially dropped — and the record was sealed. At the time, Ritter suggested that the case was a smear campaign designed to silence him.

Less than a decade after that arrest, Ritter found himself in similar legal trouble.

He was convicted in 2011 in Monroe County, Pa., after Barrett Township police presented evidence that in 2009 he had masturbated in front of a webcam being viewed by an undercover officer who was posing as a 15-year-old girl.

CCRider
CCRider
  Crawfisher
January 13, 2020 9:47 am

That is true. And there is plenty of sex scumbags in d.c. including Trump. But Ridder has been spot on with the Iraq debacle and is a respected critic of American foreign policy.

Bilco
Bilco
  Crawfisher
January 13, 2020 10:19 am

When I seen this guys name. Like yourself it rang a bell. Went to my stash of books,and found one of his, It was titled Target Iran. One of several he wrote. Not sure where I got that book.Did not know of his legal troubles.

CCRider
CCRider
  Bilco
January 13, 2020 10:55 am

It was used on him when he was telling the world Saddam didn’t have atomic weapons. Limbaugh and North were screaming it back when they were leading their sheep down the path for war. It’s a convenient way to discredit him instead of discrediting his observations which have been spot on.

Exring
Exring
January 13, 2020 10:09 am

CCrider! Can you elaborate on the issues of “cavorting with Minors” by Pres. Trump. This is information with which I am not familiar.

CCRider
CCRider
  Exring
January 13, 2020 10:50 am

No, I don’t think Trump messed with minors just the normal everyday screwing behind his wife’s back.

overthecliff
overthecliff
January 13, 2020 10:45 am

UN weapons inspector says it all. We should all trust the UN.