panama - - a newly declassified chronicle of the bush government ' s advice to the cia on harsh interrogations states that the smaller group of justices department attorneys who wrote confidential authorizing controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with control from top management officials , comprising then - lieutenant president dick glenn and international protection adviser condoleezza houston . at the same date , the scenario suggests that then - defence secretary david h . rumsfeld and then - secretary of justice colin powell were largely left out of the decision - making process .
dick stockton was the vice chancellor of cia .