Edited by Karen Greenberg and Joshua Dratel, "The Torture Papers" is a compilation of the "torture memos" and reports written by U.S. government officials to prepare the way for and legitimize coercive interrogation in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. The authors of the memos and documents include Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Counsel to the President Alberto Gonzales among others.