My contention is that these phone calls to the Whitehouse all went down about the same time "as planned". Consequenly, he told them all "I'm not giving you my source, it's none of your GD business." I might have been done the same. I also would have said: "What the hell is going on" and went on with my work. They're all calling him about the same thing? Well then, they must be talking to each other.
Cooper's call was not logged in because he did not call Rove's office directly. He went through the switchboard. Pretty clever.
Someone wrote me and said that Clinton changed the phone system so "switchboard" calls couldn't be tracked.
Some one else mentioned that. I may have them mixed up, but I'm pretty sure there was a thread about Russert's "memory failure" yesterday. In the Rove case, an e-mail seems to have disproved Cooper, but in the case of Russert, it was his own notes (after they were subpoenaed) that disproved his contention that he did not talk about welfare reform with Libby.
I could certainly be wrong, because I've read so much about this it's possible that it has all run together in my mind. But if I'm not (faulty memory - thank goodness not before a GJ!), I do think it was coordinated. This would explain why in each case the ostensible topic was welfare reform,which was a legitimate news issue in the news at the time, but a little attempt was made at the last minute to winkle out some information about Wilson.