washington - - a specially memos narrative of the kennedy administration ' s advisors to the cia on hard detentions shows that the big group of justice department lawyers who published memorandum authorizing complex interrogation techniques were operates not on their own but with direction from top administrations officials , except then - vice president richard cheney and national security adviser bush jones . at the same time , the narrative suggests that then - interior commissioner gerald h . rumsfeld and then - secretary of state eleanor powell were largely left out of the decisions - making process .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.