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To: greenspirit who wrote (761187)	4/13/2022 10:42:26 AM
From: Maple MAGA	2 Recommendations Recommended By Bruce L Mick Mørmøny Respond to of 793770

Anyone that would listen to Scott Ritter, let alone take him seriously has a serious mental problem. What else was he doing in the eight years between his two convictions? "Ritter was the subject in two law enforcement sting operations in 2001. He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl. He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of "attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child". The charge was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months of probation. After this information was made public in early 2003, Ritter said that the timing of the leak was politically motivated in order to silence his opposition to the Bush administration's push toward war with Iraq. Ritter was arrested again in November 2009 over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl. Ritter said in his own testimony during the trial that he believed the other party was an adult acting out her fantasy. The next month, Ritter waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was released on a $25,000 unsecured bail. Charges included "unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, criminal attempt and criminal solicitation". Ritter rejected a plea bargain and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a courtroom in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2011. In October 2011, he received a sentence of 1½ to 5½ years in prison. He was sent to Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in March 2012 and paroled in September 2014."

To: greenspirit who wrote (761187)	4/13/2022 10:47:37 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793770

In the interview I posted today he explains what happened early in the war. The Russians had contacts with local governments as well as Ukraine's military. They were going to be allowed to pass through without fighting. Ukraine’s counterintelligence found out about this and… did what they had to do. Lots of Russian troops were entrapped and slaughtered. He considers this a big defeat for the Russian's intelligence services - and a big victory for the Ukrainian one.