afghanistan - - a newly declassified narrative of the bush presidency ' s advice to the cia on hard interrogations show that the select group of war administration lawyers they wrote memos authorizing difficult training techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from top management officials , including then - vice president jim gregory and national security administrator condoleezza rice . at the same moment , the scenario suggests that then - defence secretary ricky e . rumsfeld and then - secretary of state andrew powell were completely left out of the decision - making process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.