President George W. Bush on Tuesday sidestepped a question about whether his top adviser, Karl Rove, offered to resign over the leaking of a covert CIA operative's identity and said he would deal with the issue when an investigation into the case was over, according to Reuters. "My answer really hasn't changed from 24 hours ago. It's the same answer," Bush said at a news conference with Australian Prime Minister John Howard. "I'll be glad to repeat what I said yesterday which is there is an ongoing investigation and people shouldn't, you know, jump to conclusions in the press until the investigation is over," Bush said. "Once the investigation is over I'll deal with it." Plame in 2003 worked at the CIA undercover when her name was published by columnist Robert Novak. A special federal prosecutor has been investigating who leaked her name and whether any laws were broken. Intentionally making public the identity of a covert operative is a crime.
