washington - - a newly unclassified text of the bush administration ' s recommendation to the dod on harsh guantanamo means that the small group of justice minister members they composed memos authorizing controversial interrogation techniques were engaging not on their own but with encouragement from top defense officials , including then - vice president dick campbell and domestic intelligence adviser condoleezza rice . at the same time , the narrative suggests that then - defense admiral ricky h . rumsfeld and then - secretary of state colin powell were largely left out of the decision - making process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.