Scott Ritter on Navalny

Scott Ritter on a podcast (man he talks to a lot of people) talking about Navalny.

I found it odd that the Ukrainian Chief of intelligence, or whatever his title is, rules his death to be a blood clot with the implications being that there's nothing to see here.

Why would he say that when the idea that Putin assassinated him gives others ammo to do things like declare Russia to be a state sponsor of terrorism.

Scott is claiming that Navalny's lawyer gave him some medication/drugs the last time he saw him.
He also speaks on the supposed Novichok poisoning and what he really thinks happened and why.

These are not my ideas but I do like to hear all sides of a story. We all know the saying that there are three sides to a story. My side, your side and somewhere in between lies the truth.

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a reply to: WannabeeAuCourant

Erm...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania jury on Thursday found former high-ranking United Nations official Scott Ritter guilty in an Internet underage sex sting.

Prosecutors accused Ritter, 49, of Delmar, New York, a suburb of Albany, of engaging in a lurid web chat with a person portrayed as a 15-year-old girl. That person was actually a detective for the Barrett Township Police Department in Pennsylvania.

Ritter was the chief weapons inspector in Iraq until he resigned in 1998 because he said he felt neither the Clinton administration nor the United Nations was pursuing Iraq weapons inspections vigorously enough. Later, in 2002, he had a falling out with the Bush administration over the war in Iraq.

The jury deliberated two days before finding Ritter guilty of six of the seven charges against him. One was a misdemeanor, indecent exposure, and the rest were felonies, including three charges of unlawful conduct with a minor, criminal attempt to corrupt a minor and criminal use of a communications device.

Linky

Not the guy I would be listening to, but ok....

He does address that in this video.

I did get to dig up more information using chatgpt4.

TextScott Ritter, the former United Nations weapons inspector, has indeed been a controversial figure due to his conviction for sex crimes. Let’s delve into the details:

Conviction and Claims:

In 2011, Ritter was convicted of sex crimes involving a minor1. He did not plead guilty but was sentenced to 1½ to 5½ years in prison1.

While in prison, Ritter claimed that he went to prison “because of what I believe in” and maintained his innocence2.

According to him, a counselor looked through all the court documents and found no evidence of a crime2.

Background and Controversy:

Ritter served as a UNSCOM weapons inspector overseeing the disarmament of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He resigned in protest and later became a critic of the Iraq War and US foreign policy in the Middle East1.

His outspoken views and activism against the Iraq War made his conviction particularly notable1.

Ritter’s legal troubles included a 2001 police sting operation and another in 2009, both related to sex crimes1.

Despite his previous role as a UN weapons inspector, his actions and subsequent conviction significantly impacted his reputation and legacy1.

Parole and Release:

Ritter was paroled in 20141. The specific reasons for his early release are not explicitly mentioned in the available information.

Parole decisions can be influenced by factors such as an individual’s behavior during incarceration, good conduct, and legal considerations1.

In summary, Scott Ritter’s case remains controversial, and his claims of innocence persist even after his conviction12. The counselor’s review of court documents adds an intriguing layer to the story, but the full context and legal proceedings would require further examination to understand the complexities of his case2.

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At the end of the day, is his analysis wrong because of that or is it wrong just because it's wrong?

a reply to: WannabeeAuCourant

He was convicted of online sex chat with someone who he thought was 15 years old when he was 49.

According to him, a counselor looked through all the court documents and found no evidence of a crime.

According to actual court documents and his chat history, he was convicted of 6 out of 7 charges.

I was a fan of his when he was pointing out the Iran hypocrisy.

I was also taught like all of us in the 70's in elementary school that if you are a Pedo, then you belong in the wood chipper.

If they wanted to "take him down" for his viewpoints, they would have done the normal thing and just planted child porn on his computer.

Not taken the time to involve a city police detective.

~shrug~

a reply to: Lumenari

This is getting a bit off topic although it could call into question his integrity.
He wasn't the only one offering analysis in the video. Maybe you would care to comment on that?

a reply to: WannabeeAuCourant

Scott Ritter on a podcast (man he talks to a lot of people) talking about Navalny.

I found it odd that the Ukrainian Chief of intelligence, or whatever his title is, rules his death to be a blood clot with the implications being that there's nothing to see here.

Why would he say that when the idea that Putin assassinated him gives others ammo to do things like declare Russia to be a state sponsor of terrorism.

You're confusing two different people. Scott Ritter is a former US marine corps intelligence officer. He has nothing to do with the Ukrainian intelligence. He's a mouthpiece for Putin's propaganda and a regular contributor to RT and Sputnik.

He makes a lot of claims in the video without offering any evidence to back them up. I guess it's easier this way.

He accuses Navalny of being sponsored by CIA without giving any proof. This way you can accuse anyone of working for CIA.

He says Novichok poisoning was fabricated, again without proving it. The investigation was conducted by Germany not the US, the country which had a positive and quite friendly relationship with Russia, had the strongest in Europe economic ties with Russia and was among the last countries to impose sanctions on Putin's regime.

This us from Wiki:
The Charité hospital, with Navalny's consent, published a scientific article titled "Novichok nerve agent poisoning" in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet. In the article, 14 doctors described Navalny's clinical details and course of treatment. The doctors also confirmed that severe poisoning was the cause of Navalny's condition: "A laboratory of the German armed forces designated by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons identified an organophosphorus nerve agent from the Novichok group in blood samples collected immediately after the patient's admission to Charité

Kudryavtsev unwittingly confessed that the Novichok agent had been applied to Navalny's underwear while he was staying at the hotel in Tomsk; but while Navalny had worn them for the flight as planned, the poison had apparently been absorbed too slowly. He attributed Navalny's survival to the pilots rerouting the flight and doctors in Omsk administering an antidote "almost immediately". Following Navalny's medical evacuation to Germany, the man said he had been sent to recover Navalny's clothes so that they could be treated to remove traces of Novichok before they could be tested by independent experts. The FSB later dismissed the recording of Navalny's telephone call as a forgery, calling it a "provocation" that "would not have been possible without the organizational and technical support of foreign special services". However, Bellingcat had arranged for its representatives to be present during the call, and they were; there are direct witnesses, in addition to the published audio and visual records of the call.

He makes a claim that if Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok, he wouldn't have survived. This is not true because a former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter were also poisoned with Novichok but survived.

The drama began on 4 March, when Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were discovered gravely ill on a park bench in Salisbury, U.K. In 2006, a Russian military tribunal had convicted Skripal, a former colonel in Russia's foreign intelligence service, of treason. He settled in Salisbury after a spy swap in 2010.

U.K. investigators say they recovered residues of a nerve agent on clothing and belongings in Skripal's home and at a pizzeria in which he and Yulia dined just before taking ill.



If that's true, whoever made the attempt on Skripal's life botched the job. Investigators have hypothesized that the nerve agent was either introduced into Yulia's suitcase before she boarded a flight from Moscow to London on 3 March, or blown into the air vents of Skripal's BMW. Either way, the Skripals "were accumulating a very low dose," presumably through the skin, Taylor says. "Not much blood is coming from the skin back to the heart." The Skripals and the ill police officer may have survived thus far because they didn't inhale or ingest larger doses of the agent.

UK attack shines spotlight on deadly nerve agent developed by Soviet scientists.

If they put the poison on Navalny's clothes, as that Russian from FSB confirmed, that was probably the reason for his survival, as it acted slowly.

But the most insane is his claim that Putin changed the constitution so that he can rule till the end of his life because he chose to reform Russia at a slower pace and it's too early for him to step down as Russia is not yet cured. Seriously. Putin wants to rule eternally because of his unappeased political ambitions, the thirst for unlimited power and wealth. He doesn't give a rat's a** about ordinary Russian people, most of whom live in poverty.

a reply to: twistedpuppy

Thanks for the lengthy reply. You clearly took the time to watch the video and convey your thoughts on it.

I don't think that the delay in Germany imposing sanctions on Russia was due to Germany agreeing with Russia but more likely because of the reliance on the energy supply. It appears the sanctions have hurt Germany more but this is all speculation on my part.

Perhaps you're correct in the assessment that the instances you mentioned were botched attempts on life using Novichok.

I should've clarified that as an aside, I found it odd that the Ukrainian chief intelligence officer claims that Navalny died of a blood clot and foul play wasn't the case. I'm aware they're two different people.

I reckon you put the likes of Colonel Douglas MacGregor in the same camp as Scott Ritter, minus the online sexual assault conviction?

I have a hard time believing that Putin doesn't care about the common person. Evidence of that was him forcing a factory to stay open so that the workers could continue earn a paycheck.
I also have a hard time reconciling how rich Putin is while working as a politician.

a reply to: WannabeeAuCourant

As I wrote in another thread, Ukrainians still feel grudge towards Navalny for his claims about Crimea. He said that he wouldn't give Crimea back to Ukraine if he became a president. He and his associates also claimed that the war with Ukraine is not Russia's war but the personal war of Putin. So the words of this Ukrainian intelligence officer don't surprise me that much. He can't know the cause of his death because Russia didn't allow international autopsy.

As for Mac Gregor, I find it odd that you have so many of Russian trojan horses in the US military. I woder if Russia has equally as many of American pawns within its own military. I suspect not.

I also didn't notice Russian politicians or military officers running to CNN to talk sh*t about Russia. No matter how many bad things some of us say about Russians, there's one thing that they don't do that is foul their own nest. Even Navalny, giving Putin hell, left his "Great Beautiful Russia" out of it. I guess patriotism in the West is a dead thing, being replaced by the parasitic fungus of stupidity that makes its hosts entertain suicidal thoughts. Kinda like it does to ants.

a reply to: WannabeeAuCourant

right after his wife visits bringing food and medicine FROM HOME,
just like what happened last time he was poisoned by novochok
on the airplane flight to germany...

ok, maybe that was khodorkovski... but,,

the political fallout payoff was more than enough for the u.k.
like when they poisoned the skirpals attempting to
get us to goto war with russia since at least 2011

novochok, supposedly the most toxic poison russia ever made,
even though they stopped their chemical program before
novochok came out.. but porton downs has some..

and theyre telling us that russian assassains screwed up so badly,
that only a police officer died weeks after they checked the
skirpals home and cleared it

a reply to: reader110

Are you suggesting that his wife killed him, knowingly or unknowingly?

a reply to: twistedpuppy

I've never gotten the impression that MacGregor is #ting on America so much as he is criticising certain administrations actions.
As always, I could be wrong

SR surely has a target on his back, pun intended.

a reply to: WannabeeAuCourant

Hmmmm...Where is Michael Jackson's doctor? Did he flee to Russia to treat political priaoners in gulag?

Inquiring minds want to know!!!

Honestly, the cause of death is not shocking...lots of ways to murder someone with a substance these days. Could be natural or unnatural....most likely, we will never know.

Supposition does not manifest truth.

originally posted by: twistedpuppy
a reply to: WannabeeAuCourant

Scott Ritter on a podcast (man he talks to a lot of people) talking about Navalny.

I found it odd that the Ukrainian Chief of intelligence, or whatever his title is, rules his death to be a blood clot with the implications being that there's nothing to see here.

Why would he say that when the idea that Putin assassinated him gives others ammo to do things like declare Russia to be a state sponsor of terrorism.

You're confusing two different people. Scott Ritter is a former US marine corps intelligence officer. He has nothing to do with the Ukrainian intelligence. He's a mouthpiece for Putin's propaganda and a regular contributor to RT and Sputnik.

He makes a lot of claims in the video without offering any evidence to back them up. I guess it's easier this way.

He accuses Navalny of being sponsored by CIA without giving any proof. This way you can accuse anyone of working for CIA.

He says Novichok poisoning was fabricated, again without proving it. The investigation was conducted by Germany not the US, the country which had a positive and quite friendly relationship with Russia, had the strongest in Europe economic ties with Russia and was among the last countries to impose sanctions on Putin's regime.

This us from Wiki:
The Charité hospital, with Navalny's consent, published a scientific article titled "Novichok nerve agent poisoning" in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet. In the article, 14 doctors described Navalny's clinical details and course of treatment. The doctors also confirmed that severe poisoning was the cause of Navalny's condition: "A laboratory of the German armed forces designated by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons identified an organophosphorus nerve agent from the Novichok group in blood samples collected immediately after the patient's admission to Charité

Kudryavtsev unwittingly confessed that the Novichok agent had been applied to Navalny's underwear while he was staying at the hotel in Tomsk; but while Navalny had worn them for the flight as planned, the poison had apparently been absorbed too slowly. He attributed Navalny's survival to the pilots rerouting the flight and doctors in Omsk administering an antidote "almost immediately". Following Navalny's medical evacuation to Germany, the man said he had been sent to recover Navalny's clothes so that they could be treated to remove traces of Novichok before they could be tested by independent experts. The FSB later dismissed the recording of Navalny's telephone call as a forgery, calling it a "provocation" that "would not have been possible without the organizational and technical support of foreign special services". However, Bellingcat had arranged for its representatives to be present during the call, and they were; there are direct witnesses, in addition to the published audio and visual records of the call.

He makes a claim that if Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok, he wouldn't have survived. This is not true because a former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter were also poisoned with Novichok but survived.

The drama began on 4 March, when Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were discovered gravely ill on a park bench in Salisbury, U.K. In 2006, a Russian military tribunal had convicted Skripal, a former colonel in Russia's foreign intelligence service, of treason. He settled in Salisbury after a spy swap in 2010.

U.K. investigators say they recovered residues of a nerve agent on clothing and belongings in Skripal's home and at a pizzeria in which he and Yulia dined just before taking ill.



If that's true, whoever made the attempt on Skripal's life botched the job. Investigators have hypothesized that the nerve agent was either introduced into Yulia's suitcase before she boarded a flight from Moscow to London on 3 March, or blown into the air vents of Skripal's BMW. Either way, the Skripals "were accumulating a very low dose," presumably through the skin, Taylor says. "Not much blood is coming from the skin back to the heart." The Skripals and the ill police officer may have survived thus far because they didn't inhale or ingest larger doses of the agent.

UK attack shines spotlight on deadly nerve agent developed by Soviet scientists.

If they put the poison on Navalny's clothes, as that Russian from FSB confirmed, that was probably the reason for his survival, as it acted slowly.

But the most insane is his claim that Putin changed the constitution so that he can rule till the end of his life because he chose to reform Russia at a slower pace and it's too early for him to step down as Russia is not yet cured. Seriously. Putin wants to rule eternally because of his unappeased political ambitions, the thirst for unlimited power and wealth. He doesn't give a rat's a** about ordinary Russian people, most of whom live in poverty.

One question,where are the Skripals now?
MI5 always lie to you,stop spreading their lies like they are fact.

a reply to: glen200376

So only FSB lies are allowed here?

Some of you, people, have a really peculiar way of reasoning. You suspect everything that the Western governments and their security services say. Yet you take for granted anything that the Russian government and its minions say. It's funny.

Are you suggesting that the Skripals were successfully murdered and the British pretend they are still alive? For what purpose? What would be the point?

If you were a spy who changed sides and under death sentence, would you trumpet your location? Such people are a valuable source of information about the enemy state, hence stepping up protection.