Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday... “He is a former intelligence officer, so he may be subject to certain restrictions on traveling abroad,” Peskov suggested, adding that if this is the case it would be “understandable” since similar rules exist in almost all countries with regard to former intelligence officers, particularly when it comes to travel to foreign countries that are considered hostile.
What are the terms of end-of-service of Ritter after he stopped the official service?
As another article underlined, the important fact of this dirty business is the change in terminology from "unfriendly" to "enemy"... And this goes both ways, unfortunately another kind of escalation.
By the way: Ritter was talking in a podcast recently about the US definition of "victory" in case of nuclear war and he said that the US goal would be that the US culture would be the dominant one after the disaster... scary if was true... what about India and the other countries not involved directly in the conflict? Would the US doctrine on nuclear warfare require the bombing of the full world to achieve that goal? Do you have any information about this? As if it was not terrifying enough...
The US foreign policy doctrine even in so called peacetime is "full spectrum dominance" globally. That means US foreign policy aims for it to be the strongest power in every region of the world. By implication it involves weakening all other countries where they live, and sowing chaos and division among them. That's the lens under which it has occupied Japan and South Korea militarily for decades, under which it has used Ukraine to harass Russia and Taiwan to China.
And that is their "peacetime strategy", so you can only imagine that in wartime, their policy is to flatten everyone else, including vassals and neutrals.
Ritter was a intelligence officer for the Marines. He obtained high level security clearance at some point, hence the weapons inspector status involved in the INF implementation and then the WMD inspections between Iraq wars 1 and 2.
My understaning of ex-intelligence is that the commitment to not breach the rules of classification of intelligence data never ends. Apart from that, if you leave you either have left or your haven't. Which is the case is for people to decide. The intel community can covertly fund anything (almost).
They probably have some sort of NDA in place like those that I had to sign as part of the employment agreement in some private companies... Pretty normal procedures to protect important intellectual property. Some NDA last X number of years after one leaves the company and I wouldn't be surprised if anyone with military clearance has a lifetime NDA as part of that clearance (which equals to a raised work position as employee).
Probably he wouldn't have been stopped if Russia was not considered an "enemy" but I guess he was fully aware of the possibility when he decided to fly there now.
I wouldn't take Peskov as an expert on US consitutional law, just as I wouldn't UK commentators. Here I refer to the UK courts asking for 'assurances' from the executive which can only be given by the judiciary.
Whatever the NDA restrictions this should not affect a person's ability to travel for that is part of association and that, the US supreme court has repeated ruled, is protected by the 1st amendment. There are limited exceptions, some of which Larry Johnson listed.
The questions remains, what legal justification will the US DoJ come up with for the actions taken?
The ball is in Ritter's court. He can lodge a claim for exhortitant amounts of damages to force the US to fight in court and declare their hand. Or, he can accept the return of his passport and some minor apology.
Right now, the episode has not been reported by a single major US news outlet.
People Biden’s infamous “disinformation bureau” run by the ex-Facebook censorship czar Nina Jankowitz was never dismantled. It’s operating in secret. Because it’s unconstitutional.
But you can detect its continued operation in action such as this move to shut down Scott Ritter. They are obviously analysing the independent media and targeting the most credible actors for takedown. I suspect Ritter is targeted now because as they move into more stupid escalation, Ritter will play a key role for the public in terms of debunking their lies. It’s a sure sign they are doubling down on the most stupid path - and that they KNOW it’s not defensible.
From RT yesterday:
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday... “He is a former intelligence officer, so he may be subject to certain restrictions on traveling abroad,” Peskov suggested, adding that if this is the case it would be “understandable” since similar rules exist in almost all countries with regard to former intelligence officers, particularly when it comes to travel to foreign countries that are considered hostile.
What are the terms of end-of-service of Ritter after he stopped the official service?
As another article underlined, the important fact of this dirty business is the change in terminology from "unfriendly" to "enemy"... And this goes both ways, unfortunately another kind of escalation.
By the way: Ritter was talking in a podcast recently about the US definition of "victory" in case of nuclear war and he said that the US goal would be that the US culture would be the dominant one after the disaster... scary if was true... what about India and the other countries not involved directly in the conflict? Would the US doctrine on nuclear warfare require the bombing of the full world to achieve that goal? Do you have any information about this? As if it was not terrifying enough...
The US foreign policy doctrine even in so called peacetime is "full spectrum dominance" globally. That means US foreign policy aims for it to be the strongest power in every region of the world. By implication it involves weakening all other countries where they live, and sowing chaos and division among them. That's the lens under which it has occupied Japan and South Korea militarily for decades, under which it has used Ukraine to harass Russia and Taiwan to China.
And that is their "peacetime strategy", so you can only imagine that in wartime, their policy is to flatten everyone else, including vassals and neutrals.
Ritter was a intelligence officer for the Marines. He obtained high level security clearance at some point, hence the weapons inspector status involved in the INF implementation and then the WMD inspections between Iraq wars 1 and 2.
My understaning of ex-intelligence is that the commitment to not breach the rules of classification of intelligence data never ends. Apart from that, if you leave you either have left or your haven't. Which is the case is for people to decide. The intel community can covertly fund anything (almost).
They probably have some sort of NDA in place like those that I had to sign as part of the employment agreement in some private companies... Pretty normal procedures to protect important intellectual property. Some NDA last X number of years after one leaves the company and I wouldn't be surprised if anyone with military clearance has a lifetime NDA as part of that clearance (which equals to a raised work position as employee).
Probably he wouldn't have been stopped if Russia was not considered an "enemy" but I guess he was fully aware of the possibility when he decided to fly there now.
I wouldn't take Peskov as an expert on US consitutional law, just as I wouldn't UK commentators. Here I refer to the UK courts asking for 'assurances' from the executive which can only be given by the judiciary.
Whatever the NDA restrictions this should not affect a person's ability to travel for that is part of association and that, the US supreme court has repeated ruled, is protected by the 1st amendment. There are limited exceptions, some of which Larry Johnson listed.
The questions remains, what legal justification will the US DoJ come up with for the actions taken?
The ball is in Ritter's court. He can lodge a claim for exhortitant amounts of damages to force the US to fight in court and declare their hand. Or, he can accept the return of his passport and some minor apology.
Right now, the episode has not been reported by a single major US news outlet.
Not one.
That tells us something else.
People Biden’s infamous “disinformation bureau” run by the ex-Facebook censorship czar Nina Jankowitz was never dismantled. It’s operating in secret. Because it’s unconstitutional.
But you can detect its continued operation in action such as this move to shut down Scott Ritter. They are obviously analysing the independent media and targeting the most credible actors for takedown. I suspect Ritter is targeted now because as they move into more stupid escalation, Ritter will play a key role for the public in terms of debunking their lies. It’s a sure sign they are doubling down on the most stupid path - and that they KNOW it’s not defensible.
This is political dynamite for the desperate Anglo-American SS.