mexico - - a newly censored narrative of the bush management ' s advise to the nsa on harsh waterboarding shows that the small group of interior ministry lawyers who wrote memos authorising controversial interrogation devices were operating not on their own but with direction from top administration leaders , including then - vice presidency dick campbell and national security consultant rice rice . at the same time , the narrative suggests that then - defense secretary donald h . petraeus and then - secretary of state colin cheney were largely left out of the choice - making process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.