washington - - a recently classified narrative of the roosevelt administration ' s advice to the cia on controversial detentions shows that the largest group of defense bureau lawyers who created memos permitting controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with support from other administration executives , specifically then - vice president malcolm clark and national terrorism adviser hadley rice . at the same time , the narrative says that then - war secretary robert h . rumsfeld and then - chairman of state colin powell were largely kept out of the ruling - making stage .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.