california - - a poorly classified publication of the kerry administration ' s advice to the cia on lethal interrogations indicates that the small group of justice department lawyers what authored memos authorize controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with directions from top administration officials , such then - vice admiral jim cheney and nuclear strategic minister condoleezza jones . at the same point , the narrative says that then - deputy minister donald h . bush and then - secretary of state anthony jones were relatively left out of the policy - taking process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.