Leak Investigators to Get Phone Log

Bush's staff was informed of the requests in a Jan. 23 e-mail from White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales that directed staff members to preserve relevant records. He followed that up with a Jan. 26 e-mail asking them to turn over such records to his office. Gonzales wrote that the requests were "pursuant to grand jury subpoenas."

The staff was told to turn over records of any "contacts, attempted contacts, or discussion of contacts, with any members of the media concerning Wilson, his trip, or his wife, including but not limited to the following media and media personnel."

The memo then names about 25 journalists, including Novak and five Washington Post reporters. The subpoena asks for any contacts from Feb. 1, 2002, to the present.

McClellan said at a briefing near Bush's ranch that Gonzales's memo urged "everybody to comply fully with the request from the investigators, and that's exactly what we are doing."

"At this point, we're still in the process of complying fully with those requests," McClellan said. "We have provided the Department of Justice investigators with much of the information and we're continuing to provide them with additional information and comply fully with the request for information."

White House officials said that neither Bush nor Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. had issued a policy about whether aides called by the grand jury could invoke the Fifth Amendment, which protects citizens from having to testify against themselves. .

At the briefing, McClellan said Bush "has made it very clear he wants everybody inside government and outside government to provide those who are leading the investigation with information that might help them get to the bottom of this."

"Our policy, at the direction of the president, is that everybody should cooperate fully with those who are leading the investigation," he said. "That's our policy. I'm not going to speculate about grand jury proceedings. I have no knowledge of anyone invoking their legal right against self-incrimination. I checked with White House counsel's office, and they have no knowledge of anyone invoking their legal right against self-incrimination."