The RT contributor is reportedly being investigated as a “foreign agent”.
Federal agents and state police have searched the house of former US Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter in New York state on Wednesday.
State Police and FBI agents descended on the street of Bethlehem township, south of Albany, around noon, according to the local outlet Times-Union. They carried “more than two dozen boxes” out of the house just before 5pm local time.
The law enforcement executed a search warrant “related to concerns apparently the US government has about violations of the Foreign Agent Restriction Act (FARA)” Ritter told reporters gathered outside the house after the agents left.
He denied any allegations of wrongdoing and said the federal government was trying to intimidate him.
An FBI spokesperson confirmed “law enforcement activity in connection with an ongoing federal investigation,” but would say nothing further.
Ritter is a former US Marine Corps major who served as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq during the 1990s. He opposed the 2003 US invasion, insisting that Saddam Hussein’s government did not have weapons of mass destruction, as Washington claimed at the time.
He has also been an RT contributor and saw his passport seized by the US government when he tried to attend the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in June.
Jim Hoffman, Ritter’s neighbor across the street for two decades, told the Times-Union that the former inspector has kept a low profile.
“When he came out against the Iraq War back in early 2000s, he was vilified everywhere,” Hoffman said. “Honestly, he was right. He said there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”
Ritter himself has not posted anything about the raid on social media. His most recent post on X was from Tuesday’s meeting with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The administrators of his Telegram channel posted photos of the raid and said they have not heard from him either.
* Scott Ritter is a syndicated contributor to DTNZ.
📢🇺🇸JUST IN: Scott Ritter’s house is being raided by the FBI right now! pic.twitter.com/FUpZcFsKJ7
— Aussie Cossack (@aussiecossack) August 7, 2024
Scott Ritter is a voice of common sense and reason. I’ve watched his interviews many times and he has an impressive understanding of the Ukraine war (amongst others) and what sits behind it. This is clearly politically motivated, at a time when the dishonest democrats are facing an election, surprise, surprise. Can’t have political commentators and military experts telling the truth now, can we?
Suffice to say, the USA looks more and more like any dirty authoritarian regime, you care to name.
Another Mar-A-Lago styled raid on a truth-teller who no longer supports Israel and their murderous genocide, and has accurately announced that the J3wi$h Ukrainian President Zelensky and the Zionist Nation of the Ukraine are finished, and that a *Russian Victory is pending! (*Thank God!!!)
Exposing the truth now gets you visited, with frame-ups, and victimised by the disjointed enforcement of ‘the law’…!
The Patriots in the Militias (both organised and un-organised) know where the Deep State perps live, and where their hidey-holes are. So,
When Civil War, invasion or both happen simultaneously, the Militias will know exactly where to go to eradicate the political cancers from society who have caused these problems while supporting genocidal Israel and adrenalchrome / bio weapons labs Ukraine!
Merrick Garland knows nothing once again 🤔
https://youtu.be/jQXqZM5amJg?feature=shared
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