I don’t know how Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector and left-wing hero, avoided jail the first time he got caught chatting up an underage girl on the internet (though you can read here the pathetic defense he offered at the time), but he did. Ritter is now a repeat offender. Laura Rozen points to this report from the Pocono Record:
Scott Ritter of Delmar, N.Y., who served as chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98 and who was an outspoken critic of the second Bush administration in the run-up to the war in Iraq, is accused of contacting what turned out to be a Barrett Township police officer posing undercover as a teen girl. (Affidavit). […]
He had been charged with attempted child endangerment after arranging in an online chatroom to meet what he thought was a 16-year-old girl at a Burger King restaurant. The girl turned out to be an undercover policewoman.
Ritter said the criminal charge was a smear campaign in response to his criticizing U.S. policy in the Middle East. …
Our most recent run in with Scott Ritter came early last year when, as part of a group calling itself “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity,” entered into the debate over the appointment of Chas Freeman to offer his unqualified support for Freeman to serve as the head of the National Intelligence Council. Maybe Freeman will return the favor and use some of his Saudi petro-dollars to post bail for his old friend Scott Ritter.
