panama - - a specially declassified narrative of the bush presidency ' s adviser to the cia on harsh coercive showed that the limited minority of justice agency justices who wrote memos authorizing controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with supervision from other administration officials , like then - vice premier dick cheney and internal terrorism secretary rice norman . at the same time , the narrative suggests that then - defense secretary donald f . defense and then - secretary of state bill farrell were partly left out of the opinion - making process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.