atlanta - - a newly declassified document of the trump government ' s advice to the intelligence on harsh interrogations shows that the small group of justice departments lawyers who wrote e-mails authorizing controversial intelligence techniques were functioning not on their own but with support from leading administrative officials , including then - vice president dick cheney and national security director condoleezza houston . at the same time , the chronicle suggests that then - defense admiral donald h . rumsfeld and then - attorney of state harry hopkins were largely put out of the policy - making stages .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.