[fieldmarshaldj]

"James Riady, an Indonesian tycoon and devout Christian"

Unproven.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Follow the money.＜ｐ＞That's how he got in.

He paid off somebody big time, and the cable went down to the Embassy, Jakarta, to issue this guy a U.S. visa. Simple as that. As a State Dept. consular officer, you would be committing career suicide to stand up to it and say "Hey Boss. Wait. No!"

[ntmxx]

“How and why did a foreign Clinton-era(buddy)...get a U.S. visa after being kept out for so long under the Bush administration?

Uhm, do ya think it was an inside job like the panty bomber, who also received a visa; naw could’nt be.

[marron]

This is not a difficult conundrum. Riady and Lippo were the Clintons' financial godfather, big time, for decades. How was he not going to get a visa from Secretary of State Clinton. Its not possible that a Clinton State Department would refuse him anything.

[freekitty]

Watch out, Hillary is raising her ugly head.

[Daisyjane69]

If you ever want to get a reaction from a public official in Utah, forget polygamy. Instead, mention James Riady. A Clinton payoff to him robbed Utah schools for generations to come:

Mr. Riady’s influence peddling and political-favor bartering paid off in 1996 when President Clinton designated 1.7 million acres of southern Utah as the Grand-Escalante National Monument. The Clean-Air Act eliminates the use of many types of coal by U.S. power companies with the exception of hyper-low sulfur coal. This type of coal is known to exist in only three locations: 1. an extremely remote area of Colombia; 2. Kalimantan Island in Indonesia and 3. Grand-Escalante National Monument. The creation of this national monument gave the coal deposits on Kalimantan Island that are controlled by the Riady family and the Indonesian government a near monopoly on the sale of the sought-after coal.

“President Clinton explained that the creation of the Grand-Escalante National Monument was done out of environmental concern to protect the land from development. However, the Court, respectfully, must conclude that there was no such environmental concern regarding Grand-Escalante National Monument. In 1997, the Clinton-Gore administration awarded Conoco Oil Corporation an oil-drilling contract for the Grand-Escalante National Monument. Mr. Riady appears to have successfully cashed-in a political favor with the Clinton administration in order to gain a coal monopoly.”

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/aim-report-the-case-against-james-riady/

By Utah law, the profits from that land were to go to Utah public schools.

[OwenKellogg]

Riady is an ethnic Chinese.

[ballplayer]

I guess Hillary Is Gearing up to Challenge Obama,She needs the Cash. Some things Never Change