This just in...

[RandFan]

It turns out Scott Ritter will not be going to Iraq as previously planned. When asked why he mumbled something about "no internet access" ...hmmm...cryptic...developing.

 

[Jon_in_london]

what? eh? huh?

 

[Jedi Knight]

It turns out Scott Ritter will not be going to Iraq as previously planned. When asked why he mumbled something about "no internet access" ...hmmm...cryptic...developing.

There is a rumor floating around the net that Scott Ritter tried to lure two teenage girls to meet him through an internet chat room. Apparently he got arrested and maybe the judge ordered him to stay off the net since his sexual proclivities tend to be geared towards children.

Anyone have any other information on this? Leftist CNN didn't announce the story on Ritter because Ritter is obviously an anti-Bush ally so it was in CNN's interests to be biased (extreme leftist bias). CNN basically protected a potential pedophile from bad media publicity. Ritter is a public personality and CNN's lack of coverage is shameful but yet another example of the communist news network's hatred for America.

JK

 

[cbish]

I heard he was actually convicted in the summer of '01. There wasn't any jail time; perhaps fines & mowing the Court House Lawn for ten saturdays.

 

[King of the Americas]

STOP IT...

...PLEASE.

He was NOT 'convicted' of anything.

 

[RandFan]

Re: STOP IT...

...PLEASE.

He was NOT 'convicted' of anything.

KOA,
Scott Ritter was arrested in an internet sting. Some reports indicated that it was the second time that he was involved in this activity.

Funny that it is ok to discuss aledged activities of Bush but not others. There is nothing to preclude US citizens from forming an opinion or discussing the matter.

 

[King of the Americas]

Let...

...Freedom reign.

 

[Smalso]

JK: I saw a report on the story on CNN.

 

[karl]

JK: I saw a report on the story on CNN.

Aha -- so they are reporting the story to cover up the fact that they aren't reporting it. The conspiracy deepens ...

 

[aerocontrols]

JK: I saw a report on the story on CNN.

JK said it wouldn't be on CNN?

Ritter was inteviewed on CNN last night by Aaron Brown, who hectored him about it.

MattJ

 

[aerocontrols]

I think it's also important to note that, JK's ridiculous assertions aside, the only press bias that Americans really care about is the bias at ESPN.

(and this bias is completely real and documented)

MattJ

 

[subgenius]

Re: Re: This just in...

Anyone have any other information on this? Leftist CNN didn't announce the story on Ritter because Ritter is obviously an anti-Bush ally so it was in CNN's interests to be biased (extreme leftist bias). CNN basically protected a potential pedophile from bad media publicity. Ritter is a public personality and CNN's lack of coverage is shameful but yet another example of the communist news network's hatred for America.

JK

Waiting for an admission of fallibility?
(Sound of crickets)

 

[RandFan]

Re: Re: Re: This just in...

Waiting for an admission of fallibility?
(Sound of crickets)

ROTFLMFAO

 

[Roadtoad]

Ooooh. The COMMUNIST News Network. That's a good one.

I'm going back to the Cheap Beer Thread. Makes more sense than JK.

 

[Starshark]

Re: Re: This just in...

There is a rumor floating around the net that Scott Ritter tried to lure two teenage girls to meet him through an internet chat room. Apparently he got arrested and maybe the judge ordered him to stay off the net since his sexual proclivities tend to be geared towards children.

Anyone have any other information on this? Leftist CNN didn't announce the story on Ritter because Ritter is obviously an anti-Bush ally so it was in CNN's interests to be biased (extreme leftist bias). CNN basically protected a potential pedophile from bad media publicity. Ritter is a public personality and CNN's lack of coverage is shameful but yet another example of the communist news network's hatred for America.

JK

(emphasis mine)

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Oh... Ow... My sides hurt...

 

[Goshawk]

The story is not that he was arrested just now--the story is that someone leaked the information that he was arrested back in 2001.

The story surfaced Saturday, January 19, in the Schenectady Gazette.

Report: Former U.N. inspector arrested in Internet sex sting

January 21, 2003, 12:55 PM EST

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A former U.N. weapons inspector was arrested in 2001 during an Internet sex sting operation and was under investigation for a similar incident months before his arrest, according to published reports.

The arrest of Scott Ritter, 41, who served as a weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98, was first reported by The Daily Gazette of Schenectady on Saturday.

< snip >

Albany County Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Preiser agreed to have the case adjourned in contemplation of dismissal, meaning the charge would be dropped if Ritter stayed out of trouble for six months, and the case was subsequently sealed, the newspaper said.

Two months earlier, Ritter, a former Marine intelligence officer, tried to meet a 14-year-old girl he chatted with online and was instead met by police officers, the Times Union of Albany reported Tuesday. Ritter was released without being charged.

It didn't really hit the media until January 21.

CNN.com is featuring it today. I have no idea why it took them five days, but I doubt whether it's because they're part of a leftist conspiracy. It's much more likely that they have limited space on their website for stories, and the news that a former weapons inspector had been arrested, but not convicted, two years ago in an Internet sex sting was kind of a non-story for a news organization the caliber of CNN.com--up until the Feds decided to "review" the case. Then suddenly the political slant made it potentially important.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/26/ritter.arrest/index.html

Source: Feds look for case against Ritter
Sunday, January 26, 2003 Posted: 11:28 AM EST (1628 GMT)

ALBANY, New York (CNN) -- Federal prosecutors are reviewing a file from the police and the local district attorney about Scott Ritter's 2001 arrest on a charge of communicating via the Internet with an undercover officer posing as a 16-year-old girl, according to a source close to the investigation.

The source said prosecutors in the Albany office of the U.S. attorney are trying to determine if a federal case -- regarding Internet commerce -- could be made against the former U.N. weapons inspector, who recently has been an outspoken critic of possible war with Iraq.

I'd give a great deal to have been a fly on the wall in the office of the "two U.S. attorneys in Albany who have been prosecuting computer crime cases for years" who made the request to the Feds to review the case.

 

[Smalso]

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall while the negotiations...er, discussions...by the Bush team were taking place with Enron about the administration's energy policy; which, the administration tells us, is none of our business.

 

[Roadtoad]

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall while the negotiations...er, discussions...by the Bush team were taking place with Enron about the administration's energy policy; which, the administration tells us, is none of our business.

Smalso, that was the original intent of the 1st Amendment! The Press was supposed to be the fly on the wall, so we could make informed decisions about what our government is up to. That way, we wouldn't have companies like Enron ruining people's lives, or companies like WorldCom screwing over investors and the nation. Instead, what we get is biased, half-assed, incomplete reporting.

It's either that, or "SPACE ALIENS URGE BRUCE WILLIS TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT!"

 

[Smalso]

Yep. It's that liberal-biased, left-wing media at it again.

 

[Roadtoad]

Yep. It's that liberal-biased, left-wing media at it again.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!