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Bill and Hillary Clinton
Last Updated: October 16, 2008

The former, and possibly future Presidential couple have received $ tens of millions in illegal campaign contributions, eponymous foundation gifts, unsecured loans, speaker’s fees and “consulting” payments from companies partnered with China, global bank fraud and the autocratic ruler of the UAE.

Eastern Influence

Before and during his first presidential terms, Bill Clinton received at least four of those millions funneled by Mochtar and James Riady, father and son Indonesian bankers with “a long-term relationship with Chinese intelligence,” according to a 1998 US Senate report.

The Riadys’ Lippo Group conglomerate provided a crucial $3 million loan to Clinton’s ’92 Presidential campaign. According to CIA reports to the Senate, of those Lippo subsidiaries and affiliates headquartered in China, 47 were joint ventures with the Chinese government.

At the same time, Lippo controlled nearly 100 other corporate entities worldwide. China Resources Holding Co, an established arm of Chinese intelligence, had acquired 50% of Lippo Group’s banking interests in the United States.

The Riadys, and their VP John Huang, later confessed to drawing US election campaign funds from a bank account in Hong Kong.

After Clinton was elected, the Riadys were regular visitors to the White House. They immediately lobbied Clinton for favorable trade relations with China, which was then granted.

In 1993, John Huang brought the Chairman of China Resources to a private White House meeting, with Vice President Gore’s Chief of Staff. Six months later, Clinton appointed Huang, with no US government or business experience, as Assistant Deputy Secretary of Commerce.

After a perfunctory background check, Huang received Top Security clearance five months before actually taking office.

During his year and a half as a top US official, Huang attended highest level security meetings and received hundreds of classified documents. He met frequently with President Clinton, and, it was later documented, had hundreds of contacts with the Riadys and Chinese officials, often right after US security meetings.

While in office, Huang illegally raised donations for Clinton then segued over to the Democratic National Committee as Vice Chairman of the ‘96 re-election campaign.

There, Huang and fellow bag man Charlie Trie (both later convicted and given probation for election fraud felonies), personally raised $3.5 million for the Clinton campaign, half of it later traced to illegal foreign sources.

In’05,Trie actually brought the head of China’s state-run weapons brokerage, Poly Technologies, to meet Clinton in the White House.

This was months after 2,000 Chinese automatic weapons were seized being smuggled into San Francisco, and four days after an unexplained (later rescinded) special permit for China to legally bring in 100,000 more of the same. (Note – In April 2008, the same China-owned Poly Technologies tried to unload 77 tons of weapons in South Africa, en route to help Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe destroy his electoral opponents, Johannesburg stevedores refused to unload the weapons).

From 1995-1997, a wide scale surge of Chinese espionage achieved horrifying results. Advanced nuclear technology, weapon systems, plans, and designs, were stolen en masse from labs and defense facilities throughout the country. It was two years before whistleblowers finally got the press, the Congress, and the public’s attention.

In 1998 Congressional testimony, every top Security, Defense, Energy and White House official acknowledged he’d been repeatedly updated on the unrelenting number of Chinese spy thefts that continued without Presidential response. Each official swore he thought someone else had told the President.

In his statement to Congress, Clinton regretfully confirmed their mistaken assumptions.

Mideast Priorities

Money for Clinton from Mideast dictators was more up-close and personal. And there was more of it, apparently for similar services rendered.

In 1999, less than two years before Clinton left office, the head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit reported he had the Most Wanted Terrorist in his cross hairs. Michael Scheuer notified the White House that Bin Laden’s exact location had been confirmed by real-time ground observation.

He was entertaining guests at a falcon hunt campsite in Khandahar, Afghanistan, and Scheuer asked permission to annihilate the site.

Permission was denied for reasons of “collateral damage” and “friendlies in the area”. One of the “friendlies” was later identified as Mohammed bin Rashid Maktoum, then UAE Defense Minister and/or his Army Chief.

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Henry Shelton, told the 9/11 Commission that his “counterpart” in the UAE said he was hunting at a camp in the Afghanistan desert at that time. (His UAE counterpart most likely would be Defense Minister Maktoum.)
While in office, Clinton had publicly appealed to the UAE for counterterrorism help, and to break ties with the Taliban, but the UAE refused. Groups designated as “Global Terrorists” continued to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the UAE even after 9/11.

Nonetheless, soon after leaving office, Clinton joined those getting paid by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, now Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. In late 2001, Clinton received more than $1 million in Dubai (UAE) speaking fees and donations to his presidential library.

Just months before, the UAE had announced in Arab News that it was finalizing its second $150 million dollar payment to -- US Specially Designated Global Terror Groups -- Al-Aqsa and Palistine Intifada Jihad.

That same year, Bill Clinton joined the investment firm Yucaipa Companies, from which, his tax returns disclose, he received more than $15 million as “consultant” since 2003.

Besides Clinton’s long-time donor Ronald Burkle, Yucaipa’s main shareholder is Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, who, perhaps along with Bin Laden, owes his life to Clinton.

Bill was behind the scenes advisor for Dubai Ports' (UAE) attempted takeover of major US ports in 2006. Publicly, Hillary joined those opposing the pending deal.

The year after, when Bill’s efforts for Dubai Ports came to light during her Presidential campaign, she claimed he hadn’t told her.

The UAE has often endangered U.S. national security. The 911 Commission described its anti-terror inaction as an “historical problem.” It was one of three countries to recognize the Taliban government, its banks laundered Al Qaeda money for the September 11th hijackers, and it balked when the United States sought help tracking Osama bin Laden’s accounts. Israelis are forbidden entry, and widespread slave labor was documented as late as 2007.

A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani scientist who admitted selling nuclear weapons components to North Korea and Iran, routed them through the UAE.

In early 2008 Clinton said he was negotiating a buyout from Maktoum’s co-owned Yucaipa company. According to Newsweek, that buyout would  be about $20 million.

However, the biggest dollars with Clinton’s name on them reside in the accounts of the Clinton Foundation. Its net assets as of 2007 were more than $300 million, most of it pouring in since 2005, with only a few million having been distributed.

The Clintons refuse to identify its hundred or so main contributors, saying they’ll do so if Hillary is elected President.

Mideast and Fareast Buyers Meet Out West

Bill Clinton’s apparent services for both Middle and Far East patrons began in the late ‘80s, when he was Arkansas Governor. His soon-to-be largest contributor, billionaire Jackson Stephens (original Wal-Mart backer), was an equal-opportunity fixer on a global scale.
Stephens brought Clinton his first Chinese and Arabian benefactors, even while he brokered bail outs for George W Bush's oil ventures from some of the same people.

The China-linked Riadys were partners with Stephens in Arkansas’ Worthen Bank. It was through Worthen that Riady and Stephens provided a desperately needed $3 million loan for Clinton’s ‘92 campaign. It was reportedly repaid through Federal matching funds deposited in non-interest accounts at Worthen.

Stephens also headed the attempt to establish US operations for the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), funded by UAE, Pakistani and Saudi financiers.

This global ponzi scheme laundered money for dictators, drug and weapons dealers, terror and rogue intelligence groups,

BCCI collapsed in 1990, after its controlling stockholders looted $20 billion from depositors, in what prosecutors described as “the largest financial fraud in world history”.

Stephens’ and BCCI’s efforts to infiltrate the US banking system were represented by Arkansas’ Rose Law Firm, whose partner, Hillary Clinton, was one of their attorneys of record.

In the wake of that scandal, the Clinton’s financial affinities stayed more with Beijing than Dubai, at least until Bill’s second term.

For Clinton’s ‘92 campaign, James Riady personally raised $1 million, besides the funds illegally reimbursed from a bank in Hong Kong. (He later pled guilty to felony election fraud and paid an $8.6 million fine).

Riady’s company also made a $100,000 payment to Webster Hubbell, Hillary Clinton's law partner who Bill Clinton had appointed to a high-rank post in the Justice Department. Hubbell resigned his post in March 1994 while he was under investigation for tax evasion and fraud in connection with billing schemes while at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. (Hubbell pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion in 1994.)

During his years in office, Clinton’s China policy grew one-sidedly generous. Despite major Congressional opposition, he directed the sharing of US nuclear and other technologies, even while China conducted massive and successful spy operations.

Beginning in’92, US exports to China rose moderately, from $6.4 billion a year to $16 billion in 2000, much of it from advanced technology.

Imports from China, however, skyrocketed from $18 billion a year to more than $100 billion in 2000 (a nearly 600% increase).

One of the most notorious Asia-to-Clinton couriers was Yah Lin ``Charlie’’ Trie. Owner of a Little Rock restaurant, he once delivered a single folder with $460,000 in assorted checks and money orders to Clinton’s legal defense fund. (The batched donations raised too many red flags and were ultimately returned). Just after the donation, Trie warned Clinton against blocking China’s missile launches at Taiwan. Clinton had placed two Navy aircraft carriers between China’s ships and Taiwan’s shore. Trie warned that if the Navy stayed, attacks on Los Angeles “were possible.” What effect that remark had on the eventual removal of the ships is not known.

While pouring cash into Clinton and DNC campaign coffers, China was conducting massive nuclear espionage.

China began conducting nuclear weapons tests in 1993, immediately using secrets it was stealing from the United States. U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed the thefts in 1995, yet two years later, when the extent of the espionage unfolded publicly, Clinton claimed not to have been informed of the situation.

His Energy Secretary, Chief of Staff, and head of the CIA all testified learning of the espionage in the summer of 1995. The FBI was informed in October and National Security Advisor Anthony Lake a month later. However, in 1997 Congressional testimony, each of them said he hadn't informed the president.

Ultimately, the extent of the spying might not have come to light in as much detail if it weren’t for an accident. On Feb. 14, 1996, a People’s Liberation Army rocket crashed after liftoff in China.

On board was a satellite owned by U.S. companies Loral Communications and Hughes Electronics. During China’s probe of the crash, Loral and Hughes, without notifying  US officials, passed on highly sensitive missile technology to the Chinese.

Both companies were major contributors to Clinton and the Democratic Party.
Loral’s CEO Bernard Schwartz was the single largest donor to the ’96 re-election campaign, sending in $635,000.

A subsequent Congressional inquiry, headed by Rep. Christopher Cox, (R-California), found that Clinton’s recent waiver of export controls over advanced space technology to China had led to enhancement of their nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Congressional panel also detailed the concurrent illegal foreign contributions to the Democratic Party.

Along with a simultaneous Senate-side probe, much more was disclosed. Not only were Chinese spies operating in U.S. weapons labs, but they’d already stolen design information for nearly all the components needed to launch a sophisticated nuclear attack on the U.S.

The thefts included technology for thermonuclear warheads, missiles to carry them, and guidance systems for missiles and other advanced weapons

The report faulted the relaxation of a monitoring system for launches of U.S. satellites in China in the 1990s and reduced restrictions on high-performance computer systems.

The released report was 30% redacted by Clinton, from the original, still-classified report.

The Clinton White House did not let the Chinese spying cases affect the administration’s largesse toward China, which included increased exports of satellites and other militarily useful items.

Clinton had already eased the commercial sale of supercomputers and satellite technology. Even as the discovered scope of China’s espionage widened, he wanted to cement a nuclear cooperation agreement at a summit in October 1997, enabling American companies to sell China new commercial nuclear reactors.

The pact was signed, despite loud protests from Congress and others, with Clinton’s assertion that China was somehow in compliance with human rights and international nonproliferation obligations. Even then it was widely known that China had sold rocket fuel to Pakistan and nuclear components to Iran.

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