Edward Snowden, my book with Scott Ritter, and the art of exploiting the messenger vs. the message

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76. And what "insider" information did the government have on Ritter,

and how did they get it, that allowed them to destroy his character so completely (and in a manner coordinated to silence Ritter during the final push for the war)? They must have been keeping tabs on his internet activity to know that was into, too-young women. If they did not know why would they have set up the sting? Coincidence? I don't think so.
Now, Snowden's whistle reveals just how the government operates and how they happened to have the goods on Ritter.
If you've got skeletons you'd like to keep in the closet, you'd better think twice about exposing government/corporate secrets.
Guess Will Pitt passed the character test as he was not similarly destroyed. Or maybe Pitt just wasn't as big a concern as Ritter in that episode, and his book had been discredited by its association with Ritter anyway.
Next time Pitt threatens to expose information, the government wants hidden, we will hear non-stop, on every tv station, how he enjoys bullying homeless women. You know they've got that on him.