William Scott Ritter Jr. (born 1960) Scott Ritter was a UN weapons inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998. He later worked as a security and military consultant for the Fox News network.
Scott Ritter made the words of "above your pay grade" (Senator Biden) publicly popular in American congressional hearings.
On February 18th, 2005 Scott Ritter announced to an audience in Washington State that George Bush had ordered plans drawn up to bomb Iran in June of 2005, and that the Iraq elections had been rigged by the United States. [1] He reiterated and clarified his statements about Iran in a March 30 article published by Al Jazeera. [2]
In June 2001 Ritter was arrested in Albany, New York and charged with "attempted endangerment of a child" for trying to meet up with a 16 year old girl he met online. The charges were later dropped, the records sealed, and the prosecutor Assistant DA Cynthia Preiser was reportedly fired [3]. However, the matter frequently reappears in the US media, which Ritter has called "part of an attempt to silence him" over his opposition to Bush [4].
See also: Operation Rockingham
Bibliography
- Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America (Context Books, 2003) ISBN 1893956474
- War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know by William Rivers Pitt, Scott Ritter (Context Books, 2002) ISBN 1893956385
- Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and For All (Simon & Schuster, 1999) ISBN 0684864851 (paperback: Diane Pub Co, 2004; ISBN 0756776597)
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