[NavySEAL F-16]

before that conversation, I had never heard about anything about Joe Wilson's wife.

Then, how could Rove have answered, "You heard that, too?"

Cooper can't seem to keep his stories straight.

[longtermmemmory]

Cooper must be taking testimony tips from Sidney Blumenthal. LITERALLY.

[maryz]

Then, how could Rove have answered, "You heard that, too?"

I thought that line was from Rove's conversation with Novak. Cooper's notes record "apparently with the CIA."

[NathanBookman]

I think the "You heard that too" line was from the Rove conversation with Novak. But Rove talked with Cooper after Rove heard about Wilson's wife from Novak & other journalists.

Here is the Newsweek info on the Cooper/Rove email:
In a brief conversation with Rove, Cooper asked what to make of the flap over Wilson's criticisms. NEWSWEEK obtained a copy of the e-mail that Cooper sent his bureau chief after speaking to Rove. (The e-mail was authenticated by a source intimately familiar with Time's editorial handling of the Wilson story, but who has asked not to be identified because of the magazine's corporate decision not to disclose its contents.) Cooper wrote that Rove offered him a "big warning" not to "get too far out on Wilson." Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip." Wilson's wife is Plame, then an undercover agent working as an analyst in the CIA's Directorate of Operations counterproliferation division. (Cooper later included the essence of what Rove told him in an online story.) The e-mail characterizing the conversation continues: "not only the genesis of the trip is flawed an[d] suspect but so is the report. he [Rove] implied strongly there's still plenty to implicate iraqi interest in acquiring uranium fro[m] Niger ... "