Rights groups urge Clinton to press China (Roundup)

hodownFeb 21st, 2009 - 15:07:18

No wonder. See link to her Chinese/Indonesia Mafia past:

Mrs. Clinton failed to mention the Riady family at all in her tell-all book. The Riadys were not some fictional family of Clinton supporters made up by right-wing fanatics.

If you were to judge from the media, one would get the impression that the Riadys were not present in the Clinton lifeline much less visited (and stayed) in the White House on a regular basis. Hillary Clinton certainly overlooked listing the table settings and menu for White House dinners with the Riadys.

The Riadys knew the Clintons from their Arkansas years when the Indonesian billionaire Moctar bought out the Worthen Little Rock bank. Moctar and his son James were close to Bill and Hillary through 1992 and into the White House. Moctar owned Wide World Travel — the firm selected by Hillary Clinton to replace the White House travel office — after she accused the professional staff of criminal activity and had them fired with much fanfare and a fake FBI investigation.

The Clinton close friendship with the Riady family is also well documented inside criminal records. James Riady pled guilty for passing illegal donations to the Clinton political campaigns. The Riady family, including its businesses and partners, donated more than $700,000 to the Democrats between 1991 and 1996.

The link between the Clintons and the Riadys is also well documented on film and video.

The video evidence comes in the form of the Riady gardener trying to hand Bill Clinton a check while uttering the words 'James Riady sent me.'

Arief and Soraya Wiriadinata fled the country after passing the illegal money to Bill Clinton. Arief was a gardener in Virginia working for the Riady family, yet he managed to scrape up $450,000 to donate to the DNC.

Soraya's father, Hashim Ning, was a business partner of Moctar Riady and the Lippo Group in Indonesia, and he wired $500,000, which the couple used to make the $450,000 payoff to Bill.

Evidently the Wiriadinatas kept $50,000 before heading over the border.

James Riady was one of those that met with the Clintons at the White House, along with John Huang, to talk about the problems of Hillary's law firm associate — one Webb Hubbell. In fact, James went to the White House 10 times between June 21 and June 27, 1994. Shortly thereafter, $100,000 came from his company to Webb Hubbell who was about to be indicted. Hubbell was later convicted in 1994 for fraud.

The connections between the Riadys and the Clintons have a much more sinister theme than simple foreign money inside the U.S. elections. Testimony before the U.S. Senate revealed Moctar Riady's involvement in Chinese espionage. The Senate report on campaign finances accused the Riady family of having a long-term relationship with the Communist Chinese intelligence agency.

Senate testimony revealed the Lippo Group is in fact a joint venture of China Resources, a trading and holding company 'wholly owned' by the Chinese communist government and used as a front for Chinese espionage operations.

According to a 1998 CIA report presented to Sen. Thompson, R. Tenn., 'James and Moctar Riady have had a long term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency. The relationship is based on mutual benefit with the Riadys receiving assistance in finding business opportunities in exchange for large sums of money and other help.

'The Chinese intelligence agency seeks to locate and develop relationships with information collectors, particularly with close association to the U.S. government.'

Another sweet connection between the Riady family and the Clinton family is John Huang. In 1993, John Huang was very close to the Clintons, having worked with both Bill and Hillary during the Arkansas years at the part Indonesian owned Worthen Bank.

Mrs. Clinton reportedly insisted that John Huang be given a position with secret clearance at the U.S. Commerce Department under Ron Brown. However, Indonesian billionaire Moctar Riady and James Riady paid Huang very well at Lippo Bank, much more than any income he could legally earn at the Commerce Department. When Huang left Lippo for the Clinton administration, he bravely took a major cut in pay and a secret clearance.

John Huang dabbled in defense secrets while serving in the Commerce Department. Huang was briefed on arms sales to Kuwait, UAE and South Korea. Immediately after each briefing, Huang would walk across the street from the Commerce Department to a firm owned by Jackson Stephens, an old Arkansas friend of President Clinton, and place long distance calls back to Indonesia and the Lippo Group.

Huang also had volumes of documents detailing the payments made to the Indonesian ruler Suharto and his family. In fact, Huang met with the CIA and discussed these deals behind closed doors. These payments were labeled 'First Family involvement' in some Commerce documents but in official State Department transcripts often referred to the payments as 'corruption, collusion and nepotism.'

In 1999, John Huang pled guilty to Federal charges of making illegal political contributions to the Clinton campaign. In September 2002, the Federal Election Commission fined John Huang $95,000 for illegal contributions to the 1996 re-election campaign of Clinton.

More importantly, Huang took the Fifth Amendment more than two thousand times when asked if he had ties to Chinese intelligence. The Clinton ties to the Riady family, and its links to Chinese espionage are more than documented facts. To prove my point, I need only to cite photographic evidence.

The picture of Hillary with Moctar Riady is certainly damning evidence of a relationship that spanned several bank accounts and two decades of corruption.

Mrs. Clinton managed to declare under oath that she could either not recall, not remember or simply forgot the entire 1990s. In fact, Mrs. Clinton holds the record of forgetting 250 times while under oath. Hillary Clinton not only knew the Riadys but took their money as well. Bimbo eruptions and lying under oath are minor factors in the history of the Clintons. However, the one name Hillary wants us all to forget is not Monica — it's Riady.

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hsr0601Feb 21st, 2009 - 16:58:17

On human rights, China¡¯s foreign minister told reporters: ¡°Although differences exist, China is willing to conduct the dialogues with the U.S. to push forward human rights conditions on the premise of mutual respect and noninterference in each other's internal affairs.¡±

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