Sorry, I missed your earlier post. In any event, she would have barely been in office in the early months of 2001.
Barely or not even in office but still in relationship, such that it isn't entirely suspicious (as in, not reasonable) that she'd be included in a communications study, links, relationships, etc.
However, not to be an apologist for the barebones information this article provides, the study itself, just saying, I can understand why Condoleezza Rice, even at that past time, was a subject of consideration/mention as to this issue of intelligence/information (access to such).
She wasn't an unknown at that time, nor not uninvolved, even then, almost certainly, what with, also almost certainly, everyone who was/is involved with the Hoover Institute being someone who'd be reviewed as to their communications with anyone else.