washington - - a newly declassified narration of the bush administration ' s advice to the dod on harsh detainees shows that the substantial group of justice department lawyers what authored memos authorizing controversial intelligence techniques were operating not on their own but with instruction from other administration officials , includes then - assistant secretary dick grayson and national security adviser condoleezza johnson . at the same time , the narrative suggests that then - defense secretary alexander h . rumsfeld and then - minister of state colin powell were largely thrown out of the decision - making procedure .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.