Truthout apologizes. Well, not really.

Mark Ash the editor at Truthout has issued an apology for the Jason Leopold story about the Rove indictment, although reading it, I'm not really clear what he's apologizing for. It reads to me like an apology for the short deadline on a Fitzgerald announcement, but he seems to be standing by the meat of the story, that Rove has already been indicted and that there were plea discussions last Friday at Patton Boggs.

Salon has a bit of an interview with Mark Ash, but it doesn't really say anything other than this apology is simply an effort to buy some time.

I'm still treating this story as possibly true despite the obvious miss on the timeline. I am probably not going to call it as utterly false until either we have the facts of a Fitzgerald press conference, an unsealed indictment, or obvious indications that Fitzgerald has no more interest in Rove.

I know you may disagree, that's fine, but that's how I feel. I'm treating it for now as an open and as yet unresolved issue. Please feel free to comment if you wish, but I've made a promise to myself not to spend too much time getting involved in "the controversy," so I will certainly read them all. But if you're looking for an argument, I probably won't play along on this one.