He failed to keep his mouth shut more like it. Picard guilt trips him into confessing, but this was very late in the series. Wesley had already established hims

He failed to keep his mouth shut more like it. Picard guilt trips him into confessing, but this was very late in the series. Wesley had already established himself as an insufferable child prodigy so there wasn’t a lot of growth available to him as a character. The far more interesting leader was the precursor character to Tom Paris. Who was a much better gifted character because he had flaws to redeem at the beginning, not at the end.