By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will decide on removing an Iranian dissident group from the U.S. list of foreign terror groups only after all its members have left a camp north of Baghdad, a Justice Department lawyer told a federal court Tuesday.
But Judge Karen Henderson said the court had not set a deadline by which it expects the State Department to act.
Lawyer: Clinton to decide Iranian exiles' fate after they move →
"They have said that this is complicated by the move from [Camp Ashraf] … It's not as if they are just sitting on their hands," she said.
Lawyer: Clinton to decide Iranian exiles' fate after they move →