The administration seems to have a candor problem if this is even remotely true. Not good. The biggest mistakes administrations often make, is hiding the ball. When caught, sometimes administrations don't recover. That is one of the things that put down that pathological liar, LBJ, and of course Nixon.
Obama seems determined to make all of the mistakes of the previous administration, because that's the moderate hero way. Obama just didn't like that Bush was President because it meant that Obama wasn't President.