By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
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For the past eight years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas used a fake Oregon driver's license to help cover up a secret: He was an illegal immigrant.
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others, it is predictable that some self-centered politicians and political commentators quickly assumed the killer must have been provoked by political comments. Following on that conclusion, they naturally argue (notwithstanding their exposure last week in the House to the reading of the Constitution, including the First Amendment) that whatever political words may have provoked him to his irrational violence should be silenced.
