Not Honest and Trustworthy

Does President Bush lie to the public or do his senior officials lie to the public behind his back?

Bush says We do not torture [1], but In an important clarification of
President George W. Bush's earlier statement, [US national security adviser
Stephen Hadley] refused to unequivocally rule out the use of torture [2] and White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was browbeaten by the press because he was unable to explain why the White House is asking for an exemption to torture from the Senate if the US does not torture people. [3] He couldn't even answer whether or not the White House asked exemption. (Even though it is widely known. [4])

I think it's the former. Bush should just come clean and admit that they torture people and also imprison innocent people [5]. After all, the US is reversing 790 years of human rights (habeas corpus) [6] , so it's not like their prisoners can do anything. ;-) And, I'm sure, that coming clean would help lift Bush's record-low poll ratings, where a majority of Americans rate him as not honest and trustworthy [7].