What she did then: National Security Adviser to the President

What she does now: Secretary of State

Reported involvement: Rice coordinated policy between the State Department and the Pentagon via the National Security Council process and served as the president's most trusted adviser on foreign policy. There is no evidence that she directed or participated in any of the legal analyses that directly concerned interrogation. However, Rice played a central role in demanding "human intelligence" from detention facilities like Guantanamo and was likely privy to the sources and methods used to get such intelligence. She also is reported to have played some role in managing the administration's extraordinary-rendition policies.

Photograph of Condoleezza Rice by Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP.