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

Several conservatives who sat in on closed-door meetings at last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., came away worried by GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's foreign and defense policies.
Readers of Inside the Ring will recall how Mr. Lieberthal was taken to task by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher at a congressional hearing in 2008, when the California Republican questioned Mr. Lieberthal's credibility as a China expert because Mr. Lieberthal acknowledged working for a major Washington consultancy that had received money from China.