Rove to go?
White House May Seek Fresh Start In Wake of Leak
By Jim VandeHei and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 3, 2005; A01
Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration.
If Rove stays, which colleagues say remains his intention, he may at a minimum have to issue a formal apology for misleading colleagues and the public about his role in conversations that led to the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame, according to senior Republican sources familiar with White House deliberations.</i>
And how exactly would such an apology run? “Uh, I’m sorry I committed treason to advance an optional war for personal political gain.” Yeah, that would buy him a lot of good will. But anything less would be just another lie.
