On August 7, in the middle of the day, the FBI and state police raided the New York home of Scott Ritter, a well-known and outspoken figure. They had a search warrant and were looking into whether he might have broken a law called the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Their main interest was in seizing his electronic devices, hoping to dig into his communications and see what they might find.
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Who is Scott Ritter?
William Scott Ritter Jr., born on July 15, 1961, has lived a life full of dramatic twists and turns. He started as a bright young man with a passion for military history, graduating from a high school in Germany and earning a degree in Soviet Union history with honors from Franklin and Marshall College.
Ritter's military career began in 1980 when he joined the U.S. Army as a private. By 1984, he had risen to the rank of intelligence officer in the Marine Corps, where he spent the next 12 yea...
