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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- Good to know that, as in the days of J. Edgar, our government is busy surveilling the private lives of its critics, searching for any "dirt" that can be used to shut them up.
Ritter questions federal action
Ex-arms inspector is critical of the timing
of ruling to unseal 2001 arrest records
By BOB GARDINIER, Staff writer
New York Times-Union, January 26, 2003
Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Saturday questioned the decision by federal investigators to reopen sealed files in a two-year old case involving charges he allegedly tried to use Internet to lure an underage girl to a sexual encounter.
"I wish that everyone would understand how much the timing of this whole thing just stinks," Ritter said Saturday from his Delmar home. Ritter declined to comment further.
Ritter, who resigned his position as chief weapons inspector in 1998, has become a high-profile opponent of President Bush's plans for war against Iraq and has traveled to that country as a peace advocate.
He was to travel to the country last week on a mission of peace when it was revealed that the 41-year-old was arrested in June 2001 and charged with a Class B misdemeanor for allegedly setting up a sexual rendezvous with a person whom he thought was a 16-year-old girl but who was really an undercover Colonie cop.
The case was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal, meaning the charges would be dropped and the records sealed if he didn't break the law for a six-month period. But last week, after news of that arrest surfaced, State Supreme Court Justice Joseph C. Teresi signed an order unsealing the Ritter file after a request by federal prosecutors in the Albany office of the U.S. Attorney who, sources said, may be looking to further prosecute the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys William Pericak and Thomas Spina Jr., who has been prosecuting computer crime cases for years, sought the unsealing of the records, sources said. Now that federal prosecutors have the records, they must obtain permission from the U.S. Department of Justice before they can bring a prosecution.
A possible federal case against Ritter could include the charge of using the Internet to entice a minor to engage in criminal activity, sources say.
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