BREAKING: FBI Raids Home of Former UN Weapons Inspector

The FBI has just raided the New York home of geopolitical analyst and ex-UN weapons inspector, Scott Ritter.

From 1991-1998, Ritter was chief weapons inspector in Iraq.

He is known for being critical of U.S. foreign policy, namely the corruption in Ukraine.

The FBI says his home was raided as part of an “ongoing investigation,” but not many details have been revealed yet.

Take a look:

🚨🇺🇸 FBI Raid Scott Ritters home

Ritter is an ex US Intelligence officer who is an expert on war & geo-politics.

He has been exposing Deep State Legacy Media Lies now on Ukraine for a long time. pic.twitter.com/uVFR3PRtSc

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) August 7, 2024

BREAKING

Joe Biden’s FBI just raided Scott Ritter’s residence.

The video on the right explains the proximate reason for this.

The State Department funds Ukraines “kill list” of “information terrorists” and Scott has topped that list many times.

This is political pic.twitter.com/U4Ntzt99j7

— Casey Wright 🥖🎪 (@503i7) August 7, 2024

Ritter’s home was raided just one day after he posted on social media while chowing down on burgers with RFK Jr.

🚨#BREAKING FBI Raid Scott Ritters home
Ritter is an ex US Intelligence officer.

19 hours ago he was eating burgers with Kennedy#Fbi #Raid #ScottRitter pic.twitter.com/DSRPxgwTvK

— In2ThinAir (@In2ThinAir) August 7, 2024

The New York Post reported:

Ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter’s home in upstate New York was raided by the FBI as part of a federal investigation, Wednesday, officials said.

An FBI spokeswoman confirmed to The Post that agents conducted a raid on the Delmar home as part of a federal investigation. She declined to comment further, citing the ongoing probe.

FBI agents and New York state police could be seen searching Ritter’s home that afternoon, Albany TV station WNYT first reported.

Agents and state police could be seen searching Ritter’s home in Delmar on Wednesday afternoon, WNYT reported.

The raid came a day after Ritter, the former chief weapons inspector in Iraq, palled around with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was in an Albany courtroom for a hearing over whether the independent presidential candidate should be on New York’s November ballot, the Times Union reported.

This is not the first time Ritter has wound up in legal trouble.

In 2001, he was caught trying to meet a cop pretending to be a teenage girl for sex. This case was eventually dropped.

But then, similarly, in 2011, he plead guilty to pedophilia charges for trying to lure underage girls into having sex.

I won’t get into graphic details here, but he admitted to doing some gross things on a webcam with an undercover cop who was posing as a teenage girl.

He served 3 years behind bars for this.

Recently, his passport was also seized while trying to fly to Russia.

Fox News said:

Appearing on Andrew Napolitano’s podcast in June, Ritter said U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had recently seized his passport as he was about to board a flight bound for Russia.

Ritter said CBP agents told him the State Department ordered them to seize his passport without further explanation.

Ritter, who was the U.N.’s chief weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, was convicted in 2011 of sex-related crimes involving an underage girl.

It was the second time in less than a decade Ritter was accused of trying to lure underage girls into illicit sex. In 2001, he was the subject of a police sting after authorities said he attempted to lure a Colonie, New York, police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl.

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The charges were eventually dismissed, and the case was sealed.

So, Ritter is not some innocent man.

Still, this raid has my Spidey senses tingling.

Something seems off here.

Ritter says that the FBI raided his home due to “violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.”

No word from the FBI yet.

More details from Times Union:

Shortly before noon, marked State Police vehicles and unmarked law enforcement cars lined up near Ritter’s Dover Drive home. Just before 5 p.m., authorities carried more than two dozen boxes out of the house.

After the agents and officers drove away, Ritter emerged from the home and briefly spoke with reporters. Dressed in shorts and a T-shirt with an image of the character Inigo Montoya from the 1987 fairy tale comedy “Princess Bride” on it, Ritter said the investigators were there to execute a search warrant “related to concerns apparently the U.S. government has about violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.” That federal law requires individuals and entities that represent foreign interests in the United States to register with the Department of Justice and disclose their activities.

Ritter said the search warrant allowed agents to look for electronic equipment in his home. “They were clearly interested in communications that I’ve had with people related to the work that I do,” Ritter said. “That’s all I can say about it. It’s up to them to review it.”

Ritter maintains an active online presence, writing articles critical of U.S. foreign policy towards Russia and appearing on podcasts friendly to his views.

He said that he has nothing to hide and that he had cooperated with investigators.

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“There’s no doubt that I’m being targeted because of statements I’ve made about U.S. policy in Ukraine, I’m being targeted because I have made an effort to try and improve relations between the United States and Russia to bring about arms control to bring about peace,” Ritter said.

He said he has no ill will towards the agents who carried out the search but that “I do have complaints against the personnel who caused this to happen. This has a chilling effect on free speech, the idea that you have a free speech right in America but when you execute in a manner that the U.S. takes exception to and they launch a search warrant, that’s an intimidation factor.”

“I can say that I am not intimidated and I will continue to speak out and I will continue to do what I do because that’s my responsibility as an American citizen,” Ritter said.

The FBI confirmed “law enforcement activity in connection with an ongoing federal investigation,” but declined further comment. State Police said troopers were aiding the investigation.