On March 3, 2006, the United States Department of Defense partially complied with a court order and released 53 PDF files that contained several hundred Combatant Status Review Tribunal transcripts.
It was not until April 20, 2006, that the Department of Defense released an official list of the captives' names, ISNs and nationalities.
[4] On September 6, 2006, United States President George W. Bush announced the transfer of fourteen "high value detainees" from CIA custody to Guantanamo.
[5] These fourteen men had their Tribunals in the spring of 2007, and their transcripts were released one at a time, shortly thereafter.
The CIA director later acknowledged that several of these captives, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah had been subjected to the controversial technique known as "waterboarding".