I wouldn't be willing to bet on it, but this sure sounds like it could be the very early beginnings of a shame-faced mea culpa resignation strategy:

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove personally assured President Bush in the early fall of 2003 that he had not disclosed to anyone in the press that Valerie Plame, the wife of an administration critic, was a CIA employee, according to legal sources with firsthand knowledge of the accounts that both Rove and Bush independently provided to federal prosecutors.

Again, I'm not putting any money down, but any time there's a story wherein someone lies to the President, it's safe to assume that the immediate future is not going to be particularly bright for that person.