georgia - - a now declassified narrative of the johnson regime ' s instructions to the cia on harsh interrogations shows that the small subgroup of justice department lawyers he made memos authorizing controversial interrogation tactics were operating not on their own but with input from top administration officers , including then - vice secretary greg campbell and national security consultant condoleezza rice . at the same location , the narrative shows that then - defense secretary donald h . iraq and then - secretary of state colin powell were virtually left out of the decision - taking pathway .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.