Why did the Bush administration allow China to hack into the Pentagon's computer system?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070904/wl_afp/chinausmilitaryinternetespionage

Answer 1

They knew th 'exact origin' of the attacks' and knew it was 'going on for months' How stupid are we????

Answer 2

The same reason businesses handed everything else to China - to make more $$$$.
Their contractors have been subcontracting to Chinese subcontractors for a decade now:
1997
Unknown to the colonel in charge of the REMIS system, a subcontractor of defense
giant Litton PRC has hired Chinese nationals to work on his software. One of those
employees, Zhangyi “Steven” Liu, discovers lax security and he easily obtains full
access to the computer system and a copy of all the passwords.
Topic
Chinese National employed as a subcontractor to Litton PRC
Source
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
V.
Zhangyi Liu a.k.a Steven Liu
Case Number: 3:97-CR-00003-MRM-1

Answer 3

Because Bush figured the Internets China was using was different from the Internets the US uses.

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure that they didn't let China hack into the network, they just didn't make the network secure against such attacks. Anyway, there's nothing classified on the network, or at least there shouldn't be any classified information on that network.

Answer 5

Maybe Bush and his friends took the following definition of the word "hack" seriously -

"one who works hard at boring tasks"

Answer 6

After Clinton gave the Chinese all that top secret military technology in return for campaign contributions, I hardly think that the blame lies with the Bush Administration.

Answer 7

Ask rather why Al Gore allowed it. Remember, according to him he "Invented" the Internet.

Answer 8

so they can check on their property

Answer 9

You people don't GET IT. China owns the U.S. The debt is the threat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!