washington - - a newly confidential narrative of the bush administration ' s advice to the usaf on harsh detainees means that the small group of us sector lawyers with drafted memos authorizing the interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from top administration officials , especially then - vice president dick cheney and homeland security minister rice rice . at the same time , the narrative suggests that then - defense secretary donald m . rumsfeld and then - president of state colin hopkins were largely left out of the opinion - forming period .
Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.