Moron Ritter gets nailed once for trying to have sex with a 14 year
old girl, the cops let him off and he gets caught 3 months later!
LOL! I guess Saddam gave Scott the Pedo some underage cuties when
Scott was "inspecting" in Iraq. Saddam had paid off most of the UN
inspectors. The UN was making at least $1 billion a year of the
Saddam's oil for food program.

http://www.strangecosmos.com/read.adp?joke_id=3847

By: Capital News 9 web staff
According to newspaper reports this weekend, former UN weapons
inspector and Delmar native Scott Ritter was arrested for a Class B
misdemeanor.

The Daily Gazette and Daily News said the incident happened back in
June 2001. All records in the case, including the nature of the arrest
have since been sealed.

A veteran Albany County Assistant District Attorney was fired as a
result of how the case was handled.

District Attorney Paul Clyne has an office policy to always be
informed when cases of a sensitive nature arise.

He said he was shocked when he heard about the Ritter case, and fired
Cynthia Preiser after 15 years of service.

Both Ritter and his attorney declined comment on the case.
Efforts to reach Cynthia Preiser have also been unsuccessful.

Ritter has appeared as a commentator on national news networks, and
right here on Capital News 9.

Ritter gained national attention as a former UN weapons inspector in
Iraq for his outspoken opposition to the Bush administration policies
in Iraq.

From Fox 23 News - WXXA Albany (This is straight from the newsroom's
teleprompter/closed captioning feed), posted approximately noon
Eastern:
Ritter Arrested on Sex Charges

FORMER U-N WEAPONS INSPECTOR SCOTT RITTER A FIXTURE ON LOCAL AND
NATIONAL NEWS SHOWS--- HIS PICTURE NOW GRACING THE AIRWAVES IN
DISGRACE AFTER DETAILS OF AN ARREST COME OUT.

REPORTS SHOW SCOTT RITTER OF DELMAR-- -WHO FREQUENTLY SOUNDS OFF IN
THE PRESS ON IRAQI ISSUES--- WAS SECRETLY PROSECUTED IN ALBANY COUNTY
TWO YEARS AGO AFTER BEING CAUGHT IN AN INTERNET SEX STING OPERATION.
THE CASE APPARENTLY SEALED...AND A DEAL STRUCK WITH ONE OF ALBANY
COUNTY'S ASSISTANT D-A'S.....THAT D-A NOW FIRED.

AND THE CHARGES AGAINST RITTER JUST NOW COMING TO LIGHT. {realistic
thinking, responsible thinking. I spent time in Iraq--I would spend
three or four weeks there.}

HIS LOUD CALLS FOR PEACE BRINGING GOVERNMENT SCRUTINY AT EVERY
ANGLE...NOW FORMER U-N WEAPONS INSPECTOR AND DELMAR NATIVE, SCOTT
RITTER UNDER SCRUTINY AGAIN-- THIS A LITTLE MORE PERSONAL--- FOR SEX
CHARGES.

REPORTS SHOW RITTER WAS ARRESTED BY COLONIE POLICE IN JUNE OF 2001
AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY HAD A SEX CONVERSATION ON THE INTERNET WITH AN
UNDERAGE GIRL, WHO TURNED OUT TO BE AN UNDERCOVER COP.

RITTER NOT AT HOME TODAY.... HIS WIFE REFUSING TO COMMENT.... {Is
there any comment that you'd like to make? no comment what so ever.
What about Scott? the same position, he will not make a comment what
so ever.}

ASSISTANT D-A, CYNTHIA PRIESER HANDLED THE CASE AGAINST RITTER.
REPORTS SHOW THE TWO STRUCK A DEALâ?¦ SEALING THE CASE AND DISMISSING
IT 6 MONTHS AFTER THE ARREST.PRIESER NOW FIRED FOR FAILING TO TELL DA
PAUL CLYNE THE CASE EVER EXISTED.

NEIGHBORS IN DISBELIEF THAT RITTER, A HUSBAND AND FATHER OF TWO WOULD
DO THIS... {I'd be shocked. Scott's a good guy. Every encounter I've
ever had with him has been positive. He's been a good neighbor and a
friend.} {The timing seems suspicious on top of the origination of
some of the allegations.}

RITTER HAS SAID THAT WAR WITH IRAQ SHOULD ONLY BE PURSUED AS A LAST
RESORT...THIS OPINION WIDELY CRITICIZED BY MANY POLITICIANS.... NOW
HIS OPINION MAY CARRY EVEN LESS WEIGHT IN LIGHT OF THIS SEXUAL
SCANDAL.

SCOTT RITTER WAS MOST RECENTLY ON TELEVISION LAST WEEK COMMENTING ON
THE DISCOVERY OF EMPTY WARHEADS IN IRAQ. HIS WIFE TELLS US HE'S NOW IN
CALIFORNIA.

From WTEN Channel 10 Albany:
Delmar Weapons Inspector in Hot Water

(posted: January 20th, 8:58am) The spotlight is back on former UN
Weapons Inspector and Delmar native, Scott Ritter. But it's not over
Iraq instead its over charges he talked with an underage girl on the
Internet.

The Daily Gazette broke the story over the weekend. The paper says
Ritter was arrested in June of 2001 after having a sexual conversation
on the Internet with someone he "thought" was an underage girl.

The girl turned out to be an undercover investigator.

Posted Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:35:35 AM

More Details in Former Weapons Inspector's Arrest
More details are emerging on the arrest of former UN weapons inspector
Scott Ritter. The Delmar resident was arrested by Colonie police in
June of 2001 on a misdemeanor charge. And Channel 6 News has learned
that Ritter had been issued a warning after being caught by police
once before. Colonie police will not confirm any of this, but Channel
6 News learned that Ritter was caught in a sex sting early in 2001. He
was issued a warning then, but eventually arrested for the same thing
three months later. Ritter, who has made national headlines for
speaking out against going to war with Iraq is keeping silent on this
issue. He has been unavailable for comment since details of his arrest
were made public. In June of 2001, Ritter was accused of engaging in a
sexual discussion, on the Internet with a person who he thought, was a
14 year old girl. It was actually an undercover investigator who
agreed to meet with Ritter. When Ritter arrived at the location,
expecting to meet the girl, police warned him that he had been set up.
Three months later Ritter allegedly fell into the same trap, only this
time he was arrested. The misdemeanor charge relating to child
endangerment was eventually disposed of and sealed. Assistant District
Attorney Cynthia Preiser has since lost her job over the incident.
Albany County DA Paul Clyne fired Preiser on Friday because he says
she never informed him that the case against Ritter even existed.
Prieser would not comment and Ritter has also been unavailable for
comment. The case against Ritter was eventually sealed, preventing
everyone from disclosing details about the case. In fact, Ritter can
deny it ever happened since sealed cases essentially mean, it never
happened. CNN tells Channel 6 News, Ritter is on his way to Baghdad,
but will be in New York City tomorrow to shoot an anti war message.

LIE #1: "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its
nuclear weapons program ... Iraq has attempted to purchase
high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas
centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons." --
President Bush, Oct. 7, 2002, in Cincinnati.


FACT: This story, leaked to and breathlessly reported by Judith Miller
in the New York Times, has turned out to be complete baloney.
Department of Energy officials, who monitor nuclear plants, say the
tubes could not be used for enriching uranium. One intelligence
analyst, who was part of the tubes investigation, angrily told The New
Republic: "You had senior American officials like Condoleezza Rice
saying the only use of this aluminum really is uranium centrifuges.
She said that on television. And that's just a lie."


LIE #2: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein
recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." --
President Bush, Jan.28, 2003, in the State of the Union address.


FACT: This whopper was based on a document that the White House
already knew to be a forgery thanks to the CIA. Sold to Italian
intelligence by some hustler, the document carried the signature of an
official who had been out of office for 10 years and referenced a
constitution that was no longer in effect. The ex-ambassador who the
CIA sent to check out the story is pissed: "They knew the Niger story
was a flat-out lie," he told the New Republic, anonymously. "They [the
White House] were unpersuasive about aluminum tubes and added this to
make their case more strongly."


LIE #3: "We believe [Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear
weapons." -- Vice President Cheney on March 16, 2003 on "Meet the
Press."


FACT: There was and is absolutely zero basis for this statement. CIA
reports up through 2002 showed no evidence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons
program.


LIE #4: "[The CIA possesses] solid reporting of senior-level contacts
between Iraq and al-Qaeda going back a decade." -- CIA Director George
Tenet in a written statement released Oct. 7, 2002 and echoed in that
evening's speech by President Bush.


FACT: Intelligence agencies knew of tentative contacts between Saddam
and al-Qaeda in the early '90s, but found no proof of a continuing
relationship. In other words, by tweaking language, Tenet and Bush
spun the intelligence180 degrees to say exactly the opposite of what
it suggested.


LIE #5: "We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in
bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases ... Alliance with terrorists
could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any
fingerprints." -- President Bush, Oct. 7.


FACT: No evidence of this has ever been leaked or produced. Colin
Powell told the U.N. this alleged training took place in a camp in
northern Iraq. To his great embarrassment, the area he indicated was
later revealed to be outside Iraq's control and patrolled by Allied
war planes.


LIE #6: "We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a
growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be
used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We
are concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs
[unmanned aerial vehicles] for missions targeting the United States."
-- President Bush, Oct. 7.


FACT: Said drones can't fly more than 300 miles, and Iraq is 6,000
miles from the U.S. coastline. Furthermore, Iraq's drone-building
program wasn't much more advanced than your average model plane
enthusiast. And isn't a "manned aerial vehicle" just a scary way to
say "plane"?


LIE #7: "We have seen intelligence over many months that they have
chemical and biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and
that they're weaponized and that, in one case at least, the command
and control arrangements have been established." -- President Bush,
Feb. 8, 2003, in a national radio address.


FACT: Despite a massive nationwide search by U.S. and British forces,
there are no signs, traces or examples of chemical weapons being
deployed in the field, or anywhere else during the war.


LIE #8: "Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile
of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent. That is enough
to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets." -- Secretary of State Colin
Powell, Feb. 5 2003, in remarks to the UN Security Council.


FACT: Putting aside the glaring fact that not one drop of this massive
stockpile has been found, as previously reported on AlterNet the
United States' own intelligence reports show that these stocks -- if
they existed -- were well past their use-by date and therefore useless
as weapon fodder.


LIE #9: "We know where [Iraq's WMD] are. They're in the area around
Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat." --
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003, in statements to
the press.


FACT: Needless to say, no such weapons were found, not to the east,
west, south or north, somewhat or otherwise.


LIE #10: "Yes, we found a biological laboratory in Iraq which the UN
prohibited." -- President Bush in remarks in Poland, published
internationally June 1, 2003.


FACT: This was reference to the discovery of two modified truck
trailers that the CIA claimed were potential mobile biological weapons
lab. But British and American experts -- including the State
Department's intelligence wing in a report released this week -- have
since declared this to be untrue. According to the British, and much
to Prime Minister Tony Blair's embarrassment, the trailers are
actually exactly what Iraq said they were; facilities to fill weather
balloons, sold to them by the British themselves.