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.
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.
X-Files correct yet again about methods the deep state uses to silence opponents when they have nothing else.
Also see he’s been marked by the zionist lobby so that makes even more sense as they are ruthless in character destroying anyone who endangers US-outpost-colony operation “Israhell”.
Also I’d literally never heard of this accusation before. Seems it was meant to silence him and then once the moment passed they went away with it. With these latest moves and the Russia derangement of this administration and in particular these agencies who after all were key in pushing Trump being an agent of Russia for Hillary it wouldn’t be surprising.
I was thinking when I read the breaking news about the raid that I hope he had all his stuff heavily encrypted (I had no idea about these allegations but even more so now because if it’s all encrypted they can’t claim to have found bad stuff there). Though I suppose if they’re determine they could pull out a thumb drive they ‘found’ at his house and claim it’s his. After all cops do that all the time with drop-guns.
Hope he gets a good lawyer and gets his stuff back soon but sadly this is probably just the beginning of intimidation and even if he beats these charges (who can say how long that might take, they’ll try and drag it out as long as possible for maximum emotional toll, distress, and costs) they’re likely going to continue harassing him in other ways, following him, coming to his door trying to ask questions. All the usual stuff.