Scott Ritter is a pedophile???? (caller on C-span this morning) n/t

[LittleApple81]

[eileen_d]

1. Caller must have thought it was CourtTV's 1-800 number

That's some wacky sh*t.

[rooboy]

2. He is not a pedophile...

he was apparently picked up by police one time because he was going to meet a "16 year old girl" he chatted to on the internet. Interestingly enough, though, the prosecution did not go ahead and the judge had the contents of the case sealed from public scrutiny.

That doesn't tend to happen unless the guy would have been found not guilty, apparently. Whatever the case, it's a long way from being a pedophile.

[Dr Fate]

3. They never proved anything- it was a media smear job-

As you said- he was never found guilty in court.

We dont know what happened- was he set up in a "sex trap"- and they sealed the records so reporters could not find out it was a "trap"?

With nothing else to go on, the media smeared the anti-war Ritter w/ this anyway- w/o the facts.

I dont know what Ritter did, but apparently the judge did not see it necessary to jail him...

[Q]

4. A smear job...

...kind of like this thread.

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