boston - - a newly declassified version of the bush administration ' s advice to the cia on tough interrogations suggests that the short group of justice corps lawyers who wrote emails mandating controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with directions from chief administration officials , including then - vice president dick cheney and nationals security consultant ivanov rice . at the same time , the text suggests that then - defense secretary donald h . cheney and then - treasurer of state harry wilson were largely left out of the decision - giving process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.