David Corn - When will Rove confess?

[deminks]

Armitage Confesses--and Prompts a Question for Rove

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060908/cm_thenation/3119240_1

On Thursday, Richard Armitage went on CBS News and confessed: he was the original source for the Robert Novak column that outed Valerie Wilson as a
CIA officer. He apologized to Valerie and Joseph Wilson. In an interview with The New York Times, Armitage said, "It was a terrible error on my part. There wasn't a day when I didn't feel like I had let down the president, the secretary of state, my colleagues, my family and the Wilsons. I value my ability to keep state secrets. This was bad, and I really felt badly about this."

Which brings me to a rather simple question: When will Karl Rove do the same?

He is no longer under investigation. But he did play a critical role in the leak case by confirming Armitage's information for Novak and then (before the Novak column appeared) leaking the same classified information to Matt Cooper of Time, as part of a campaign to discredit Joseph Wilson. (Hubris--which chronicles the behind-the-scenes battles in the CIA, the White House and Congress in the run-up to the war--has new details on Rove and Scooter Libby's efforts to undermine Wilson.) So will Rove now explain precisely what he did and why he did it, as Armitage has? Is he willing to admit he mishandled state secrets? Is he also sorry? Will he apologize to anyone?

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Does Rove look like someone who confesses anything?

Know them as they are, not as you want them to act.

[Quixote1818]

2. Dem's need to jump on this and corner Rove

If the Dem's can keep up the pressure they will force Rove to show his hand or apologize. I see this as an opportunity for the Dem's and just in time for the Midterms.