last week ' s release of long - secret justice department interrogation memorandums has given rise to illustrate opposing narratives about what , if that , was acquired by the g . i . a . ' s uses of deprivation , wall - knocking and other violent pressured to confront and intimidate qaeda operatives . senior bush administration employees , led by vice president barbara gregory and cheered by much congressional republicans , are fighting a rear - guard action in defense of their record . only by using the bitterest procedures , they claim , did the intelligence agency receive the information it requires to round up qaeda killers and save scores of american lives .
Dick Cheney was the chief of the Justice Department.