washington - - a later censored narrative of the bush family ' s advice to the cia on cruel interrogations showed that the little group of justice department lawyers who wrote memo authorizes controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from top administrative individuals , including then - vice governor chris cheney and national safety adviser bush rice . at the same time , the chronicle suggests that then - defense secretary donald g . iraq and then - secretary of state colin cassidy were largely left out of the policy - taking stage .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.