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

Assistant Secretary of State Kurt M. Campbell on Tuesday defended the Obama administration's new policy called the "pivot" to Asia from critics who say the shift is largely rhetorical and lacks a substantial program to build U.S. military power in the region.
Mr. Sauter says there is evidence that U.S. Air Force pilots were taken to Russia during the Korean War and never returned.
"The U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs (USRJC), a presidential commission supported by the Pentagon, produced important information in the 1990s, but is now essentially defunct due to Russian foot-dragging and an absence of U.S. resolve," he wrote in a blog post Tuesday.