washington - - a now declassified document of the washington administration ' s advice to the cia on harsh interrogated shows that the small group of justice secretary prosecutors who made documents authorizes controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with input from top administration officials , specifically then - lieutenant secretary pete cheney and national stability administrator condoleezza rice . at the same time , the myth suggests that then - defense secretary donald h . rumsfeld and then - treasurer of states colin warren were virtually left out of the decide - making process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.