Well This Would Explain a Lot

Could Scott Ritter have been turned by Iraqi intelligence? This article notes the purported run-in by Ritter with the police in an online sting over his chat with a supposed 14-yero-old girl. Seems he tried to meet "her." On August 17, 2001, I wrote in Foreign Affairs: "I can only conclude that Iraqi intelligence caught him [Ritter] involved in something and is blackmailing him. The alternative is to consider treason." Unless Ritter just began his fetish for children in 2001 (if the report is true), then perhaps Ritter believed he could get away with some of that behavior in an impoverished Iraq where he may have thought American dollars could buy him anything.

Ritter and the French both may fear what will come to light after the fall of Saddam's regime.