usa - - a newly declassify analysis of the roosevelt family ' s advice to the senate on harsh interrogations shows that the largest group of justice agency lawyers who wrote memos authorizing controversial evaluation techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from several cabinet officials , including then - cia presidential dick glenn and national security adviser condoleezza rice . at the same period , the account suggests that then - defense secretary donald h . rumsfeld and then - secretary of state colin powell were largely edited out of the ruling - making process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.