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Rice And Hadley Look Set To Launch Consulting Firm
Zachary Roth | November 11, 2009, 3:18PM
Fmr. Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice and Fmr. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley
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Two top Bush administration officials whose reputations for strategic acumen were badly damaged by the disasters of the Bush years may be about to market their expertise to private-sector clients.
In September, the RiceHadley Group LLC was registered as a business in California, under a San Francisco address. According to a source, the venture is to be a "strategic consulting" firm, headed by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, and will be launched imminently.
Neither Rice nor Hadley responded to TPMmuckraker's requests for comment.
A website at the URL "ricehadley.com" is said to be "under construction." According to internet records, the site was registered October 2. A woman with an Alexandria, Virginia mailing address -- who also did not respond to our attempts to contact her -- is listed as the administrative contact for the domain name.
Asked whether the Hoover Institution, where Rice is currently a senior fellow, was aware of plans for the firm, a spokeswoman replied that it was.
She added that Rice has not indicated she has any plans to leave Hoover, and that it's not unusual for fellows to have outside positions.
Rice and Hadley worked closely together during President Bush's first term, when Hadley served as Rice's deputy, while Rice was National Security Advisor.
Hadley is currently a senior advisor at the United States Institute for Peace.
Late Update: Colby Cooper, Rice's "chief of staff," told TPMmuckraker: "Her private goals and aspirations are private at this stage." He pledged to get back to us, but didn't respond to a follow-up call.
Late Late Update: Cooper tells TPMmuckraker in a statement that the new firm will focus on helping U.S. companies doing business in emerging markets.
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twirling fartknocker
November 11, 2009 3:47 PM
I guess they are hoping the choir pays well
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fbacon2
November 11, 2009 3:50 PM
For an additional fee, they will supply staff to rewrite their recommendations to say exactly the opposite, so clients will have a strategically useful product.
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rb6
November 11, 2009 4:33 PM in reply to fbacon2
I think we have a winner.
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pppwww
November 11, 2009 3:56 PM
which one gets to be "Chairman of the Waterboard"?
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Winston Smith
November 11, 2009 3:57 PM
Gee...I wonder if they have any business leads in Honduras.
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rbeats
November 11, 2009 4:01 PM
Blackwater, or whatever they are called, could use their expertise.
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Peter Principle
November 11, 2009 4:03 PM
The Enron of strategic consulting firms.
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CN
November 11, 2009 4:03 PM
"RiceHadley: helping you implement your strategy, no matter how wrong-headed, hare-brained, destructive, risky, devious, and undemocratic that strategy is."
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Peter Principle
November 11, 2009 4:04 PM
RiceHadley: "We can do for your company what we did for Iraq!"
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Darrius
November 11, 2009 4:10 PM
Exactly who is going to pay for their services? What is their market? That is not a rhetorical question. If anybody knows what kind of people or organization they hope to sell their services to, tell me.
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rbeats
November 11, 2009 4:12 PM in reply to Darrius
People who want to do business in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Jordan.
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Why oh why
November 11, 2009 4:15 PM in reply to Darrius
Given Rice's record during her long and disastrous career, is there any way to pay her to offer "strategic consulting" to the Talibans and Al Qaeda? Finally, an exit strategy for Aghanistan!
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Dorn76
November 11, 2009 4:16 PM in reply to Darrius
These two couldn't consult their way out of a paper bag.
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Dorn76
November 11, 2009 4:17 PM in reply to Dorn76
So I guess that rules out groceries and curious cats as possible clients.
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calgarr
November 11, 2009 8:46 PM in reply to Dorn76
Love it!
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JohnW1141
November 11, 2009 4:20 PM in reply to Darrius
Darrius,
hard to believe, heh? But hey, people are paying to hear Bush give speeches, go figure.
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pinson
November 11, 2009 4:24 PM in reply to Darrius
It's basically a front group/PO box for them to accept payoffs from Chevron and other oil companies for advancing their business interests over the past 8 years.
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Peter Principle
November 11, 2009 7:46 PM in reply to pinson
Chevron to Rice: "Jeez we already paid you once."
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froggerx
November 11, 2009 8:17 PM in reply to pinson
exactly - spot on. Also ways for Bush holdovers to launder public money into private hands
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KenZ
November 11, 2009 4:18 PM
Can they tell me how to get a high level government job with virtually no positive track record?
I still laugh that Condi Rice's supposed area of expertise was the Soviet Union, but the Bush 1 presidency with her at NSA had no idea that collapse was imminent. She has proven that you can make a career out of blind loyalty and connections.
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Peter Principle
November 11, 2009 7:48 PM in reply to KenZ
She has proven that you can make a career out of blind loyalty and connections.
Especially if you can hook yourself up with the Bush family at an early age.
Gotta stick with it, though. It doesn't work so good on the outside. Just ask Fredo.
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Overreach THIS!
November 11, 2009 4:20 PM
This are two of the great nimrods of the political horizon.
Condoleeza Rice's ignoring the 9/11 warnings of spectacular attacks is best. And all that built up to that: sending Tenet on his way when he came pleading to her in July 2001. All of it.
Her rejecting the idea of Iraq having an intelligence agency, making it the only country in the region or pretty much anywhere without one is rich ("not if it's going to turn into a KGB!!"). A *money* quote is her reason for supporting international pariah and apoplectic misanthrope John Bolton: "He's a really good diplomat!"
Hadley? Among the worst things you could say about Rice is that she would team up with this codfish! And to team up *again!* OMG!
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jzap
November 11, 2009 6:47 PM in reply to Overreach THIS!
Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US
Well, I guess she must have learned from hard experience how not to write titles of Presidential Daily Briefings so they actually get the attention of the Vacationer in Chief.
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Overreach THIS!
November 12, 2009 4:57 AM in reply to jzap
What a crowd! It's hard to know where to start!
The *idea* that I would *pay money* to sit in a room with Stephen Hadley and listen to his diarrhea of the mouth! Good God!
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Why oh why
November 11, 2009 4:21 PM
"Hadley is currently a senior advisor at the United States Institute for Peace."
Ironic.
"the Hoover Institution, where Rice is currently a senior fellow"
Not ironic.
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FlownOver
November 11, 2009 4:23 PM
We used to get their bad advice for free.
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tiowally
November 11, 2009 4:23 PM
When will they be opening their branch office in Leavenworth, Kansas?
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JohnW1141
November 11, 2009 4:23 PM
Imagine a college football coach who's record is 1 and 55 applying for head a coaching job in the NFL.
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Johann
November 11, 2009 4:36 PM in reply to JohnW1141
Where does that one (1) come from?
Name that one (1) thing either of them ever got right.
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Matt Jones
November 11, 2009 5:50 PM in reply to Johann
Well, they aren't in jail yet. That's got to count for something given their record.
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Overreach THIS!
November 11, 2009 7:13 PM in reply to Johann
Seriously, that *is* a tough one!!
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Homefries
November 11, 2009 4:27 PM
USS RiceHadley Group LLC
Name has a nice ring to it. Are they going to get a oil tanker named after them?
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mans_best_friend
November 11, 2009 4:42 PM
The Onion is angry. You stole their story.
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RuperttheBear
November 11, 2009 4:57 PM
Focus, people, focus. Think big picture
This means one thing: The Apocalypse is nigh.
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Rich
November 11, 2009 5:29 PM
There's a sucker born every minute and Condi & her buddy want their share.
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Corpiscator
November 11, 2009 6:50 PM
I'll be sure to give them Goldman Sach's number.
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dougom
November 11, 2009 6:58 PM
The "United States Institute for Peace?" Are they kidding?
The Bush brought the idea of "Orwellian" to new heights during their time in office, didn't they? Geez o man.
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froggerx
November 11, 2009 8:16 PM
I think all might be missing the point. We know how these people operate. RiceHadley will merely exist as a legal entity for what amounts to money-laundering - well-wishers with hands on public money will grant them lu-u-u-u-u-crative engagements to work on vaguely defined goals.
It's not as if they *need* actual clients who will *pay* them for valued services - this is not how it works.
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ShawninMo
November 11, 2009 8:41 PM
I love to see politicians that don't live off the taxpayers their whole lives. Maybe that's why I like the republicans more than demoncrats.
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Overreach THIS!
November 12, 2009 3:03 AM in reply to ShawninMo
The guy below says that Hadley's employer is a fucking government-funded boondoggle. I don't think you can count him in your accolade. He has been at the public teat all his life in fact, with one foot in government and the other representing people trying to squeeze more taxpayer dollars from government programs through a side door. An architect of the Iraq War, he was instrument in one of the most insane Bush policies of all: when Syria volunteered to help, he made sure we didn't talk to them, presumably because Cheney treasured the idea of Syria as an enemy. At any rate, his a career public parasite.
Maybe you like the *sound* of your stated reason, but the real reason is something different.
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ojim
November 11, 2009 9:19 PM
so are they going to call it lying skank war criminal and company?
how about liar, felon, asshat, and skank inc?
are they going to employ 'the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the planet'? i hear he is available.
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Citoyen92
November 11, 2009 10:26 PM
Hadley... This was the dude who, literally, insisted that he be served on a silver platter?
USIP is a government-funded boondoggle. It was established and funded by Congress. And is the "Department of Peace" that Bushies would rail about, until, of course, they needed a government-funded job.
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Joe Monster
November 12, 2009 7:53 AM
Hey- need some help wringing the life, money and success out of something? You need to talk to us!
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