If we start calling her "Commie Rice" will the lefties all of a sudden become pro-war?

With the exception of Bush Condi Rice is my favorite person in this administration.

That being said, how do we really know she was not a spy for China? China seems to have its hands in everything these days.

Besides, I am sure we have high-ranking Chinese officials on our payroll.

Ace-- so, what you're telling me is that Dr. Rice. . . is Yuri?

Huh.

I hope Rice runs for president as (R-Manchuria).

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Able Danger documents on Chinese espionage would be fascinating, if they still exist. I'm not surprised that the project turned up something that caused the Clintons to shut them down.

Rice's name is irrelevant. The names Moktar and James Riady spring to mind, as well as Charlie Trie, Johnny Chung, and many more. As soon as their names reached the National Security Advisor - former lobbyist for the People's Republic, Samuel Berger - alarm bells would have gone off.

It's unlikely they would have missed John Huang.

This is going to go somewhere....and not dwon the flusher. Too much sunlight on AD now, it's got to grow. I am waiting for the rest of the team to come forward and for somebody to uncover the collected data that is stored somewhere.

There might be a need for a party at the National Archives.

sshhhhh--This just in--Osama Bin Laden has been tracked down by able danger hiding in Great Britain in the guise of MADONNA. Now this is where it gets interesting. You see we've found (through interfacing our advanced geek network and amazingly advanced software programming and unbelievably critically advanced computers and all the information ever produced anywhere in the galaxy) that OBL is actually a woman impersonating a man impersonating a woman impersonating a man impersonating a woman. Obviously Madonna will deny being OBL so we'll have to act quickly. SO don't let anyone else know!!!

potential. potential spy. that's not wrong, that's right. everybody is a potential spy. it's just that we don't care if the garbage man spies.

"Sources said the private contractors, using sophisticated computer software that sifts through massive amounts of raw data to establish patterns, came up with a chart of Chinese strategic and business connections in the U.S.

"The program wrongly tagged Rice, who at the time was an adviser to then-candidate George W. Bush, and former Defense Secretary William Perry by linking their associations at Stanford, along with their contacts with Chinese leaders, sources said."

i don't understand the problem. they weren't wrongly tagged, they were rightly tagged. they were in positions with access to sensitive info, and they had contacts with the chinese. i'd want my first-approximation-compile-a-list-for-further-review computer program to tag them as POTENTIAL spies.

Frankly, practically everyone with the sort of contacts, degrees, and expert ability you need at that level could be tagged as a possible spy. I'm completely unsurprised that a data-mining program tagged Dr Rice; any program of that kind would tag most of the people I know. That's why we have background investigations.

Good post over at Right Wing Nut House on the new Iraqi constitution developements. Get it while it's fresh.

Just 'cause Clinton "sold" our most advance missle stuff to China - after transferring the responsibility out of the State Department (where it would have been stopped) - is that any reason to criticize the Clinton administration?

The fact that there were several representatives of Chinese Generals running about Washington with lots of cash in brown paper bags has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Speaking of bags of cash, I'm sure that the Able Danger lost documents were destroyed in routine records handling, just like the UN.

Anyone who casts a suspicious slant to these events is obviously a member of the vast right-wing conspiracy.