Scott Ritter is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control treaties, in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq overseeing the disarmament of WMD
Russian agent Ritter misinforms US audience about war in Ukraine, – head of the Center for Defense Reforms Under the guise of a former UN instructor, Russian agent Scott Ritter, likely recruited in Iraq in the 1990s, is spreading strategic Russian propaganda narratives about "Nazism" in Ukraine, "the defeat of the Ukrainian army" and "NATO’s inability to resist the Russian Federation." This was reported by Oleksandr Danyliuk, head of the Center for Defense Reforms, coordinator of the interdepartmental platform on countering hybrid threats, which operates within the framework of Ukraine-NATO cooperation in a comment to Guildhall. "The interview of a certain Scott Ritter to the owner of a Youtube channel in the US, Richard Medhurst serves as a prime example of the work of Russian agents on the Western audience under the guise of an ‘American expert’. Ritter, a former UN weapons instructor in Iraq, was probably recruited there and immediately after completing his work in 1998, he started lambasting US policy in the Middle East," Danyliuk said. "In an interview with Medhurst, Ritter replicates the entire set of Russian propaganda narratives regarding Ukraine over the past eight years, as well as the narratives launched with the start of a full-scale military invasion. About the ‘Nazis’ who allegedly seized power in Ukraine, the ‘liberation’ of Ukraine from the ‘fascists’ and others. Besides, in tune with the Russian media, he misinforms the audience about ‘the defeat of the Ukrainian army’, "NATO having nothing to counter Russia", and so on. The image of an American expert, with years of work under his belt, is exploited to invoke trust of the Western audience. The interview was then picked up and distributed by the Russian media," explained Danyliuk. It was allegedly "liberation from the Nazis" that Putin mentioned to justify the start of a full-scale military operation against Ukraine and the killing of civilians. https://ukranews.com/en/news/838481...war-in-ukraine-head-of-the-center-for-defense
New York Times: “An analysis of satellite images rebuts claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.” “When images emerged over the weekend of the bodies of dead civilians lying on the streets of Bucha — some with their hands bound, some with gunshot wounds to the head — Russia’s Ministry of Defense denied responsibility. In a Telegram post on Sunday, the ministry suggested that the bodies had been recently placed on the streets after ‘all Russian units withdrew completely from Bucha’ around March 30.”
Ritter is a convicted child molester. Ritter was the subject in two law enforcement sting operations in 2001.[59] 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.[60][61] 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.[61][62] 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.[60][61][63] Ritter was arrested again in November 2009[64] 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.[2] Ritter said in his own testimony during the trial that he believed the other party was an adult acting out her fantasy.[65] 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".[66] Ritter rejected a plea bargain and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a Monroe County, Pennsylvania courtroom on April 14, 2011.[2][67] In October 2011, he received a sentence of 1½ to 5½ years in prison.[68] He was sent to Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset County, Pennsylvania in March 2012 and paroled in September 2014.[69] Reception
Oh come on, now. Don’t you have confidence in our youth? Those 21 year old or so University of Chicago interns who spend a good part of their day protecting democracy, or at least Democrats, with their fact checking?
Twitter suspending Scott Ritter —- a convicted child molester who lies continually — was long overdue.