Scott Ritter is a former chief UN weapons inspector for the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) in Iraq; he resigned in 1998, charging that the United States was purposefully obstructing completion of the UNSCOM mission there. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Soviet history from Franklin and Marshall College and is a former major, and intelligence officer, in the U.S. Marine Corps. Ritter is the author of Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once and For All (Diane Publishing Co., 1999) and Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America (Context Books, 2003), and is co-author, with William Rivers Pitt, of War on Iraq (Context Books, 2002).