I DON’T KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE OR NOT, but I predict that if it is, the very people who have been saying there was no crime committed will change their tune again:

Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, presumably revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source, and what might happen to him or her. Tonight, on the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show, Lawrence O’Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know that name–and it is, according to him, top White House mastermind Karl Rove.

Stay tuned. Perhaps those who charged that all these subpoenas were actually part of a cover-up effort may change their tune, too . . . .

UPDATE: Many people have doubts about the reliability of Lawrence O’Donnell as a source. We’ll find out, I suppose. Meanwhile, Rand Simberg emails:

Of course, the people who change their minds about a crime being committed in the Plame case will be perfectly consistent. They are simply changing their position in the light of new information, since everything Karl Rove does is, almost by definition, a crime.

Excellent point.

MORE: Kaus on O’Donnell: “[H]e’s almost always wrong.”