--- title: Torture Report: Here's What Made George W. Bush Uncomfortable description: President Bush was uncomfortable with the idea of a detainee chained to the ceiling and wearing a diaper, a Senate report said. canonical: https://time.com/3625678/senate-torture-report-george-bush/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-09T17:40:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:14.484Z article:section: Politics og:title: Torture Report: Here's What Made George W. 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Bush Uncomfortable twitter:description: President Bush was uncomfortable with the idea of a detainee chained to the ceiling and wearing a diaper, a Senate report said. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8f2a750b109278e/69876d9d5f570f56a4b14127/george-bush-torture-report.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What Made George W. Bush Uncomfortable About Torture ## Video: Dianne Feinstein on Torture Report [Watch (HLS stream): Dianne Feinstein on Torture Report](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PgrKdhsm.m3u8) (0:52)  _Published 2014-12-09. Dianne Feinstein on Torture Report_  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 9, 2014 5:40 PM UTC  President Bush speaks about the war on terror at a hotel in Washington on Sept. 29, 2006. President Bush speaks about the war on terror at a hotel in Washington on Sept. 29, 2006.Charles Dharapak—AP  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 9, 2014 5:40 PM UTC The CIA’s interrogation and detention programs occurred under President George W. Bush, but even he had reservations, according to a [Senate report](http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf). The [Senate report](http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf) released Tuesday says that the CIA did not brief President Bush on specific interrogation techniques until April 2006 and that he expressed reservation about one technique then. According to footnote 17 on page 18 of the introduction: --- > “” --- Footnote 179 on page 40 elaborates that the account of Bush’s discomfort came from en email from a psychologist working as a CIA contractor, who was given the pseudonym “Grayson Swigert” in the report, about a June 7, 2006, meeting the contractor had with the director of the CIA. The footnote goes on to note that the CIA did not dispute that account, but went on to say that agency records were incomplete and that Bush said in his autobiography that he discussed the program with CIA Director George Tenet in 2002 and “personally approved the techniques.” Bush first publicly acknowledged the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program in September of 2006. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3625678/senate-torture-report-george-bush/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3625678/senate-torture-report-george-bush/"},"headline":"Here's What Made George W. 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