"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."
Possible company slogans and other advice also offered for free at TPM comments!
In a statement to TPMmuckraker, Rice's chief of staff, Colby Cooper, said:
"Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley, along with Anja Manuel, have recently founded a small strategic advisory firm focused on helping U.S. companies doing business abroad -- especially in key emerging markets like China, India, Brazil, the Middle East and others. In addition, Dr. Rice remains on the faculty of Stanford University and the Hoover Institution."
Anja Manuel was a former aide to former “P”, Nick Burns and currently counsel in WilmerHale's Litigation/Controversy Department.
Al Kamen of WaPo points out that RiceHadley is just “the latest big-time entrants in the endless battle of the groups -- as in the Kissinger Group, the Scowcroft Group, the Chertoff Group (with former CIA director Mike Hayden) and so many other strategery outfits.” (links added)
He forgot to mention the Albright Stonebridge Group of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Security Advisor Samuel Berger that merged this past July. Um what? Are you complaining that we have too many of these folks around? Excuse me - but can you imagine just how boring Washington would be without the strategerist ...
