china - - a newly declassified narrative of the bush administration ' s advice to the cia on harsh interrogations shows that the small minority of intelligence sector lawyers who wrote memorandums permitting these interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from senior president leaders , except then - vice president dick cheney and american security adviser condoleezza rice . at the same time , the narration suggests that then - military secretary donald h . pentagon and then - secretary of congress colin powell were largely left out of the verdict - made process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.