The White House Terror Regime--Falling Apart?

Does it seem to anybody else that the White House stonewalling against discussing torture in general and waterboarding in particular is starting to run its course? There's not even any effort at this point to pretend that waterboarding might not have happened. The consensus seems to be that the destroyed CIA video tapes featured waterboarding. That was followed by a Washington Post report that blandly made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi complicit in the torture policies. The LA Times featured an editorial by former chief prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions Morris D. Davis that very strongly implied that he quit his post overseeing trials in Guantanamo over waterboarding. He was barred from testifying to Congress by the Defense Department. Piling on is a former CIA interrogator who thinks that waterboarding was necessary when it happened. For a lot of time his conscience was clear, but then he changed his mind, decided that waterboarding is torture, and feels just awful about it now. Add to this the fact that Attorney General Michael Mukasey still hasn't decided whether waterboarding would count as torture or not. Which is convenient, because if he determined that it was torture, it would become a crime, and Mukasey would be obligated to prosecute. I guess he thinks it's better to look like an idiot than to take responsibility for his own job.

Throughout all of this, there's been very little response from the administration. I don't expect that they'd jump in and own up to it all, but a mild nondenial denial might be in order. Or have they given up on this point and are saving all their energy for the fight of whether waterboarding is a criminal act or not.