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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR
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To: PartyTime who started this subject1/19/2003 3:02:50 PM
From: jmhollen  Read Replies (2) of 25898
 
Be interesting to see if this turns out to be true??????
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Sunday Jan. 19, 2003; 8:53 a.m. EST
Report: Scott Ritter Snagged in Secret Sex Sting
Leading Bush Iraq policy critic Scott Ritter was reportedly arrested, charged and prosecuted in 2001 as part of a cybersex police sting after he engaged in a sex chat with an undercover cop masquerading as an underage girl.

Colonie Police in Albany County, where Ritter lives, said that the former U.N. weapons inspector "allegedly had a sexual discussion on the Internet" in June 2001 with the psuedo-underager, the New York Daily News said Sunday. But the case was mysteriously sealed and Colonie officials declined to release the arrest records.

The matter was adjourned in local court in contemplation of dismissal, law enforcement sources revealed on condition of anonymity.

Compounding the mystery: questions about why Ritter took such a high profile role as a leading critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy at a time when the embarrassing sex charges were still pending. Ritter had also come under fire late last year for taking $400,000 from a pro-Saddam Iraqi-American businessman to make a movie about Iraq.

While records of Ritter's cybersex prosecution were sealed, The Schenectady Daily Gazette reported on Saturday that Albany District Attorney Paul Clyne fired veteran Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Preiser last week for failing to inform him of the case against Ritter, the News said.

Clyne complained that since Ritter's case was "sensitive," he should have been briefed on the matter.
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