washington - - a newly declassified account of the bush administration ' s advice to the cia on harsh interrogation shows that the sizable group of state department attorneys who wrote memos approved controversial interrogation techniques were operative not on their own but with direction from prominent administration officials , notably then - vice president dick cheney and nationale terrorism adviser condoleezza reese . at the same rate , the narrative suggests that then - defense secretary donald h . rumsfeld and then - vp of state colin farrell were largely thrown out of the decide - making process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.