Conservative strategist Ed Whelan will be taking a “leave of absence” from the Ethics and Public Policy Center after he suggested Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, misidentified her attacker.

The organization's board said in a statement obtained by CNN that Whelan, the president of the organization, initially offered to resign following backlash prompted by his series of tweets seeking to cast doubt on Ford’s allegations.

But the organization decided that Whelan would instead take a leave of absence and that the board will review the situation again in the coming month.

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"After the meeting, Edward Whelan, who has led EPPC with integrity and excellence for many years, offered his resignation in light of what he described as an 'appalling and inexcusable' error in posting online a series of comments that he has now deleted and for which he promptly publicly apologized,” the EPPC board said in a statement obtained by the publication.

But after deliberation, the statement reads, the board “declined to accept Mr. Whelan's resignation, but determined that he will take a leave of absence from the organization during which time Yuval Levin, EPPC's Vice President and Hertog Fellow, will be in charge."

The statement comes days after Whelan fired off a series of tweets suggesting that Ford may have confused Kavanaugh for another classmate in the alleged assault.

Whelan also named the classmate and provided photos of the classmate on Twitter, in addition to listing the address of the house he suggested the alleged sexual assault took place.

Whelan later apologized for the tweets on Friday and they have since been deleted.

“I made an appalling and inexcusable mistake of judgment in posting the tweet thread in a way that identified Kavanaugh's Georgetown Prep classmate,” he said on Twitter at the time. “I take full responsibility for that mistake, and I deeply apologize for it. I realize that does not undo the mistake.”

His Twitter account also appears to have since been changed from public to private.