to the people that you begin to imagine and, and it where, you know, you, because you can reach something was a bad example in the military type operation. and while i'm doing this war against the iraqis, i'm fighting the war with united states. united states didn't want me to do my job to seek this argument was not the objective we did. one i ranked as our read wanted . you create the perception of a non compliant directed on cooperative iraq, which was easy to do when they weren't complying. and they were in cooperative mission accomplished, but because of the tenacity of the inspectors of your st. come all. so now losing federal defect in august of 1995. that's right. when he was there, when he was debrief by the united nations, he said you're inspections are having greater success than you know. you have made us panic. then we have gotten rid of weapons because we, we fear your inspection. so we were doing something good. we were accomplishing the mission,

but the desire is not with united states wants to go more. we succeeded and i read more angry in united states dream and attractiveness and tired of talking about charging me with espionage than any of the army since penalty are actually my family harassing my friends. everything were photos, full scale, worked in united states government and me and they wouldn't cooperate with us. i had a job to do so i convinced my boss is to let me go, for instance, to england, where i was able to get the british government to provide us with a uh, coverage signals, intelligence electrical team that we pointed to i wrapped and monitor the communications of the iraqi government and iraqi security services to see if they're moving weapons about the spreadsheet. as we're doing the inspection, we have a huge where perhaps taking photographs of the us government wouldn't give us quality interpreters because they didn't want us to read too much of the images. so i got permission to go to israel, where i sat down with these royalties in their folder and to jason,

use the youtube film, the old find targeting, and then they use that in access to their database. these really database numbers, any information about or genuine, whether it's a master, structured, some people say, gosh, that the inspectors didn't empowered us because it allowed us to go and cut down the last remaining messages of these weapons of mass destruction program. and they gave us the credibility to span before the international beauty and say, we have exhausted every possible venue. there is for information and there is nothing left to mentally. therefore, our finding a webpage, we can make planes interactions as are made me the number one, the enemy to the united states of america. and that's why they were disrupted my inspection shows. i was a war, a 2 foot together strategies as united states and 3rd front because more success i had with the british more success i had with these, or at least the more in the united states conspired internally. now the relationship with the finally succeeded in british my building your relationship

with the blog. so now i'm trustworthy. i was a spy. it should share information which of these really saying and claim as to which great relationships that were pushing results are related because united stage didn't want weapons inspection teams to succeed. scott, and you were really legendary in the respect that you went nose to nose with some of the most infamous leaders. instead i'm science regime. you didn't seem to figure them. and indeed, you never mentioned that you feared for your safety in iraq. you were also quick to criticize the clinton administration, including secretary of state, madeleine albright going up against the rockies and having them cancel inspections is one thing, but being criticized publicly by the president of the united states and the secretary of state. and later on that the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee is an entirely different thing, especially when some of your own leaders refused to back you to what do you attribute that resolve that you had?

whistle blowers, earl, or often. ready sized for their stubbornness, but what gave you that strength to stand up? how's the regular officer? yeah, that's what we do. you have permission to there's no, there's no secret here. i went through officer chat is cool. busy it's a, it's a streaming process. you show that you have to ensure you don't. i went through 6 months of basic training in quantico, either show that you had, or you don't, i went to the fleet marine forces a lieutenant where it's either st. there's one of you in front of you. busy the metal, the lead marines in combat, or they ask you to the exit. no, i proved my getting building. i worked in the former soviet union, implementing intermediate nuclear forces, treated employees and treaty. certainly all for one knows who knows the general shortest job. that's what you do. have you see? i was afraid. i was here today. i knew what the risks where i knew what we were getting ready to do. but when you lead people,

you can't show fear. i was assembling teams of 506070, sometimes a 100 international. busy church around the world, many of them have very spend next in ours because they linked enough. but, you know, in, in solar invited environment, these are people who were experts in chemical weapons, biological weapons, nuclear weapons, long range, ballistic missiles, but they work at present confrontational people. and i was now going to lead them into iraq, where we knew there will be men with guns point those guns at our streaming that is threatening to kill us. but i understand before them and say, don't be afraid to look at me. look at me. if i'm standing there and i'm not shrinking, you don't straighten your aggies for like shars with blood. if you, if you few being around that fear and they'll, they'll come out. you there to be no fear. and it was an act is i was scared to death, but the leader doesn't show fear in front of the people they're leading to while i was a pretty good actor. but anybody who wants to sit here and think that i had

a nurse to steal, and i assume my veins always went inside because this was real. this was death. i'm a slave indeed. once a to your good. that's right, that's right. i'm going to ask you to stay with us scott, we're speaking with united nations whistleblower scott ritter. there's a lot more of this conversation, so please stay with us through this short commercial break. we'll be right back. 2 2 why isn't there any public debate on the competition? ukraine? why have the leads embrace to war and show negotiations? where's the anti war movement? and more importantly, how is all of this helping ukraine? and it's faithful. the take a fresh look around his life. kaleidoscopic isn't just a shifted reality distortion by power to division with no real opinions. fixtures designed to simplify all confused who really wants

a better world. and is it just because it shows very few fractured images presented to this, but can you see through their illusion going underground? can the welcome back to the whistle blowers. i'm john to reaku. we're speaking with former united nations weapons inspector and whistle blower. scott ritter. scott, thanks again for being with us. thanks. rarely you became a noted commentator after you left the united nations. you were a regular on fox news for a period. you can be seen regularly on r t and heard on the sputnik radio network. you're a successful author. what else are you doing these days? what kind of a transition did you make into media and commentary as well?

i mean um, i think my primary um the venue of employment is with a uh, a, an energy um a publication group. energy intelligence, where i, uh, i provide the geo political analysis relating to energy security and its products that are read by the, the, the major ceos of every oil company in the world. and anybody who's involved with your business. so i'm doing that. i also again, i write for a variety of outlets over the past couple years. i've written for the american conservative, which is sort of of likely the entity i've written for true dig, which is sort of on the left. and i've written for people in the middle, there's no i the ology here again, i'm an intelligence officer or former and. ringback officer and my job is to try and remote some political within that my job is to put the fact based analysis on the table in front of a certain audience and enable them to empower themselves with knowledge and information to formulate their own opinions. if i'm trying to tell you what to

think, i've sale if i'm in power and you to learn to think on your own and i'm succeeding so that's what i've been trying to do. it's got a question that i frequently ask guests on the show is what advice they would give to people considering blowing the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, or illegality. your whistle blowing was a little different. your whistle blowing was on what came down to phony international policies. on the parts of the most powerful countries on the planet, the personal cost to you has been high. like it is with many whistle blowers. with that in mind, what advice would you give and what would you have done differently in your own case? that's why the toughest questions is out there, john. i paid a horrible price. now if it's just me paying the price. i live with that. but families paid the price. my wife paid the price and make sure price, my friends paid the price. my parents paid the prize anybody was in my, in or,

or paid a price, and i'm just gonna be straight up honest with you and your audience. knowing what i know today in the price that has been paid, the cost of that has been borne by so many people who didn't deserved adaptive barriers. this cost would i have done the same thing and i can't give you an honest answer. i mean, i believe what i did was the right thing, but the price paid the cost incurred was horrific. and i, i honestly can't tell you that i would have done that. and so therefore, i'm the wrong person for people to come to and say, should i blow the whistle? i mean, if you want to have a tech support, uh, you know, session and morality, i would say, yes, of course you have to tell the truth. do you have to speak to the car? but i want to talk to you as a human being. i would say don't do it. because you know, your price is beyond imagination. you can't comprehend the price, you're going to pay the price your family's going to pay the price your printer going to pay. and here's the other thing about it. the government doesn't care,

so people don't care. that's the biggest list i drove away from. there's truth, a lot of people to say today to say thank you very much for doing what you do. i still got to stop the war in iraq. we did stop by continuing to speak out today to try and improve relations with russia. but we're not improving relations with russia. it's about till battle. it's uh, you know, it's like a freak. busy that's a really good god. it has to push the rock up and only to have the rochester the struggle over surface. so yes, that's me you're, you're never going to get into the top. you're never going to get into the job. so doing the right thing does not produce. now come worthy of the 2nd, but here's the thing. here's the killer. every morning i wake up and i look in the mirror, i'm damn proud of the man staring back. and when i looked my wife in the eyes, i could see the pride in her eyes were a little my daughter's in the eyes. i could see the price and you can't afford to. you can't put a price on it. yeah, your sample, you're absolutely right,

scott. i say exactly the same thing. i say exactly the same thing. the price is high higher than anybody can imagine before they actually blow the whistle. but with that said, i can sleep at night, my children respect me. and i like to think that i've left a legacy for future generations, my grandchildren or great grandchildren, who i likely will never know at least still know that that one push came to shove, i did the right thing. so you're right is very high, but boy, is it worth it? i want to as you, oh yeah, please go ahead and go right ahead. just one thing. yeah. and i apologize for that all or what we're doing, if we think what we're doing is going to expose the truth and, and that's going to be the outcome we're, we're wrong, we can expose the truth, but there is go. hopefully what we're doing is setting a standard off from the government. it probably has the standards that's right for the american people. that's right and begin to demand in their government and we

get to the point where we don't need what's your words? that's the key where we don't need, we're still good because the government sufficiently transparent to know. and the people have confidence in the decisions being made to being told the truth. so it doesn't have to be with the worst. the fact that there needs to be whistle blowers, those everybody right off the bat is there's just the. exactly right, scott, i have to ask you about the conflict in ukraine and your position on it. you were an early supporter of russia, but in a very reasoned way. i've seen interviews where you work to contextualize, the conflict in the, in the scope of modern history. but that hasn't stopped the ukrainian government, for example, from adding you to a list of what they call russian propagandist. your twitter account was briefly suspended. what is the fallout been for you? has it been harder for you to work because of your position on ukraine? it's almost impossible for me to work. um every, every main stream. uh,

media. i wanna say mainstream america, you know, i used to right, sure. of some, some good um, american based journals. i don't get to write them anymore because of the steps i've taken. um my, my primary employer wont let me write on russian issues anymore cuz they, they feel that my name attached to anything that's a positive assessment on russia's russian propaganda. it's the dumbest thing in the world. mm hm. but uh, and when i tried to speak out the vin user or a jack dave, i've tried to have books i need to of been using the they can call them by pro training elements that threaten violence. you know, business wants to host yourself and it's gonna bring down their business. so this had a real quickly detrimental impact on my ability to make an earning. and as you know, agenda. so we do things because we believe in it. we do it for honor, but none of them put street on the table, right? that puts the page, the mortgage, the put your roof,

or the head or clothes on the back of your children. during the day when they're providers for a family, that means we have to have gainful employment in here, i am trying to do the right thing for my country. anybody thinks of doing this because i'm in love with russian. i'm doing this for russia. you don't know me, it's just like i didn't speak out about i rag because i love saddam shame. and i loved i rec, uh, i knew that i was an issue, but i rescued people. i have great respect for i don't eat it, but i did it because i love america. because i believe that before we send american servicemen resolved to fight done awards, to make sure because they were asking me to give their lives towards worthy of the sacrifice that racket was it. now we have a situation, you train with the same question to have to be as i'm asking the questions they don't like the answers. but instead of trying to deal with this response, we tend to shut me up. and that's uh, that's okay. you can show me up and remember, remember we talked about the cost john, my family basic gosh, that's ro when, when my job, my daughters want to go to graduate school and i can't provide the money to, to write it up. so they have to take loans as it cost. busy when my wife hasn't

been on a vacation in 20 years, that's a cost that people can say, well that's a little frivolous, really was. or do you turn your way? you can go on big right corner. your 20 years helps travel. that's all. that's all right. well, i would like to thank our guests, scott ritter and thank you to our viewers for joining us. i'd like to leave you with the words of polish american poet and writer. just love me lush, who said quotes in a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence. one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. speak up, speak the truth. the world will be a better place for it. i'm john kerry. i can thank you for watching the whistle blowers until next time the. 2 the

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a ukrainian drone has dropped an explosive device in russia's belgrade region overnight, damaging a civilian car. this image posted by the governor, shows the aftermath of the attack. plumes of smoke rising into the night sky were spotted from what appears to be the site of the blast. authorities have not reported any casualties in the incident. meanwhile, a counter terrorist operation has wrapped up in the area that's after more than 70 ukrainian militants were killed on monday and tuesday as a carried out a raid over the border into the belgrade region. moscow has ascribed the ukrainian attack as an active intimidation against civilians. one person was killed and 13 others were wounded in the incident. american and polish supplied armored vehicles

were used in the attack. some of them were captured by russian forces, as shown by the defense ministry. the images appear to show the disabled us made equipment, including humvees and at least one max pro armored fighting vehicle. one question on why us officials haven't made a definitive assessment. the white house has been not that american hardware could have been involved in the incident journalist, real estate department spokesperson on washington's assurances that american weapons would not be used in a tax on russian territory. and i will say we've seen a lot of reports on social media and fuzzy pictures on social media and a lot of kind of armchair intelligence analysts making, making, making claims, were skeptical that they are, that they are accurate. we do not encourage or enable strikes inside of russia, and we've made that clear. but as we've also said, it is up to ukraine to decide how to conduct this war. meanwhile,

just 2 days before the ukrainian militants attack on belgrade us space tech company, macs are used with satellites to film the region. the firm is partially funded by the us government and provides intelligence for the pentagon and american secret service. back in july max, our was also spotted filming the region shortly before a ukrainian cluster bomb its had on a residential area which killed 4 locals. former pentagon analysts, michael maloof, says the us doesn't want to look like it's in charge of ukraine's operations. although the public knows otherwise in the united states is, does not want to be appear to be in the position of, of controlling ukraine in this endeavor that will have backlash. and that will be clearly seen already. we have

a number of us believe and feel that the us does control the keys and its actions and its policies. and what have you uh, the, the only thing is is that unless them, until the, by the ministration helps deliveries and nothing's going to change. who's going to hold the united states accountable? i mean, they're already accountable by giving, giving the equipment over in the 1st place. but uh, nothing, nothing can be done about that. uh, the, the only thing that russia can do in most cases is destroy it. so that's why i think they're going to a very, very clearly at the a lot of the tanks and what have you and it, it's going to be a bit of less than that. it's going to be an expensive lesson for the united states . that a lot of high precision equipment is going to get destroyed and, and,

and since for the other states is on the verge of a default. first time in history, the expenses are expenditures loose expenditure, such as giving these types of weapon systems to ukraine or anybody else. this just to have hazard. and we have been at war for an unrelenting war for 22 years and it's got to stop. meanwhile, ukrainian showing has left 8 civilians wounded in the don units republic on tuesday, including 2 children. attacks on civilian areas by the ukrainian army have intensified over the last few days. following a military defeat for kids in the city of phil most are to steve sweeney reports from don. yet at least 2 children have been wounded off the ukrainian lock. it struck a school on the outskirts of don't yet city center. on tuesday, one of the victims is i used between 12 and 13 years old, born in 2010 a. she was rushed to hospital and then um,

but as we are waiting use of the condition of the other now we've been unable to get close to the hospital which lies in the k rosky district of don't yet it's incredibly close to the front line and you craning, shedding is incessant. now health officials have said the pressure on hospitals has mounted since the west of the supply of mole sophisticated owns particularly these long range missiles. but thanks to the dedication of the stuff that they have been able to save money lives way, not if the, if you give me a problem with your isn't, if it didn't make a once in injuries where funding for the lives of soldiers civilians. and unfortunately, when did children, i'll send that has been cell 4 times over the past 2 years. we, when we go to work, we're never showed and we will return home a life where showed that this is how did you need to provide medical assistance to the one that will do it? as long as we live? have no doubts and you're good full of state and state. it also shedding has intensified over the past few days with residential areas in school is coming under attack from ukrainian force is

a mother and child were among those injured on monday nights choose. they should have been a day for separation. parents were shaving photographs and footage of the children celebration that which even so over the year and the hopes for the future. but for the 2 wounded, then one has a future of uncertainty, a future of pain. this is steve sweeney. don't yet city center for all to the bottom. your opponent has hosted the president of republic a set of scuff or talks at the kremlin. miller, i dick said the west is waging a proxy war against russia and ukraine. this is good. public a service scott is under enormous pressure from the west. in general, i was required to make a decision on the sanctions against russia. but we decided that we simply would not be part of this hysteria that is being created another that we would advocate for

the issue to be resolved at the level of russia in crane and others. so that we understand that this is not a war between ukraine and russia. this is a clash of the west, which is trying to use russia as a way to inflate this war for as long as you own food and has thing to republic us of scott for its friendly attitude towards russia and for its presidents neutral position on ukraine miller, i don't think has admitted his country is under pressure from western states following his disagreement with their anti russian stands. you can watch our teas exclusive interview with president the throughout the day. in the meantime, here's a preview. so quite a pleasure to so that will see that we want to cooperate, to continue working with russia. we have not broken off for relations with russia because someone else is waging war against it. and we believe we have the rights to close cooperation. we have rejected the policy of subordination, that the west demands in terms of sanctions against russia and the termination of

all cooperation. and we intend to pursue our original policy. we are equally in favor of cooperating with other countries that wants to do so. but today, we see much of the west holding the attitude of, if you're not with us, you're against us. if you're not against russia, you're against us. and that is not in the world's interest, what the world needs today. russia is undoubtedly a great country and they didn't want to listen to russia when it war and about certain apprehensions and views that has over situations that threaten disposition . they refused to talk about this. and remember that before the military operation began, russia presented the west with a document concerning its security. and surprisingly, no one reacted to it. this is the typical arrogance of the west,