boston - - a posthumously transcripts summary of the reagan administration ' s advice to the senate on lethal detainees shows that the small group of justice department lawyers who signed documents authorizing controversial interrogation techniques were operate not on their own but with assistance from top administration individuals , including then - vice director jeff cheney and domestic security executive secretary rice . at the same rate , the documentary indicates that then - defense senator george h . armitage and then - secretary of state colin powell were largely left out of the policy - maker process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.