“On November 13 [2001], [Vice President Dick] Cheney brought a four-page text of the directive [detailing how to treat prisoners of war on terror] to his weekly private lunch with the president [Bush], who signed it later that day in the Oval Office without even taking time to sit down. Almost no one else saw it, [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice and [Secretary of State Colin] Powell included. ‘What the hell just happened?’ Powell demanded, a witness said, when CNN announced the order that evening.”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 170