atlanta - - a newly archived narrative of the bush administration ' s advisors to the cia on harsh interrogations shows that the small group of state department lawyers whose wrote memorandums authorizing controversial execution techniques were acting not on their own but with direction from top president authorities , such then - vice governor dick glenn and national security advisors ivanov lynn . at the same time , the narrative suggests that then - defense secretary donald t . rumsfeld and then - secretary of state colin powell were mainly put out of the choice - taking process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.