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More and more sources from the Bush administration confirm that torture was used to try to confirm a link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. And some of the abuse photos that Obama wants to keep hidden have now been published: Genitals blacked out. Even when a new administration promises transparency, it's sometimes necessary for reporters to help push the process.
GQ has published some of the covers of the daily briefings provided Bush in March and April of 2003, festooned with bible quotations and photos of praying soldiers: Onward Christian Soldiers.
The accompanying piece by Robert Draper (the official Bush biographer) describes Donald Rumsfeld as the person responsible for many of the most serious failures of the Bush administration, including blocking Bush's attempts to help New Orleans in the days after Katrina: AND HE SHALL BE JUDGED: It is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.
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But one government official was disturbed enough by these biblically seasoned sheets to hold on to copies, which I obtained recently while debriefing the past eight years with those who lived them inside the West Wing and the Pentagon. Over the past several months, the battle to define the Bush years has begun taking shape: As President Obama has rolled back his predecessor’s foreign and economic policies, Dick Cheney, Ari Fleischer, and former speechwriters Michael Gerson and Marc Thiessen have all taken to the airwaves or op-ed pages to cast the Bush years in a softer light. My conversations with more than a dozen Bush loyalists, including several former cabinet-level officials and senior military commanders, have revealed another element of this legacy-building moment: intense feelings of ill will toward Donald Rumsfeld. Though few of these individuals would speak for the record (knowing that their former boss, George W. Bush, would not approve of it), they believe that Rumsfeld’s actions epitomized the very traits—arrogance, stubbornness, obliviousness, ineptitude—that critics say drove the Bush presidency off the rails.
To shift gears a bit, I believe that information would surely have begun to leak if (for example) the Bush administration had had anything to do with the WTC collapse. You just can't keep such explosive stuff secret.