washington - - a freshly tapes version of the ford management ' s advice to the cia on strict interrogations shows that the larger fraction of justice minister lawyers where wrote memos authorizing controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with control from top administrative officials , including then - vice president dick cheney and national recovery adviser condoleezza jones . at the same age , the narrative suggests that then - interior secretary donald h . rumsfeld and then - secretary of state andrew wilson were generally forced out of the verdict - creating process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.