atlanta - - a freshly transcript narrative of the bush administration ' s advice to the public on controversial interrogations shows that the small group of justice administration lawyers who wrote memos authorizing controversial interrogation materials were operating not on their own but with approval from top administration personnel , especially then - vice president richard cheney and national recovery executive envoy rice . at the same time , the narrative confirms that then - defense secretary donald h . rumsfeld and then - secretary of state colin powell were partly left out of the plan - creating mechanism .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.