Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden 8/7/2024
On Wednesday the upstate New York home of Scott Ritter was raided by the FBI and state police. The FBI has since confirmed in a statement that this is part of an ongoing federal investigation into Ritter.
Agents were seen entering his house in Delmar, NY in widely shared photographs and local media footage in the afternoon. It was unclear if Ritter was at home at the time and the allegations at the center of the investigation remain unknown.
"I can confirm FBI personnel are at a home on Dover [Drive] conducting law enforcement activity in connection with an ongoing federal investigation," a statement from the FBI's Albany office confirmed. "As the investigation is ongoing, [Department of Justice] policy prevents me from commenting further."
Ritter became a prominent figure as the chief UN weapons inspector in the 1990s in Iraq and ex-intelligence official (Marine Corp intelligence) who publicly opposed the George W. Bush administration's drive to take the United States into war with Iraq.
He subsequently became a popular anti-war pundit and leading critic of US foreign policy. For an example of his ongoing criticisms of the US government and foreign policy, he wrote in 2019, "I love my country, but the collective ignorance of the American people empowers so-called public servants who abuse their positions of trust to push policies that further individual agendas at the expense of the nation they ostensibly serve. Fact-based logic no longer matters."
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/fbi-raids-ny-home-ex-un-weapons-inspector-outspoken-anti-war-pundit-scott-ritterChay Bowes
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Scott Ritter @RealScottRitter
explains what he knows about the FBI raid on his home
"This has a chilling effect on freedom of speech"
https://twitter.com/BowesChay/status/1821313681415668134
