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.
Standing by a statue dedicated to freedom, Aldona Wos remembered a childhood under communism and the inspiration of her heroic father, who saved Jews and survived a Nazi concentration camp.
"As we gather here today," she said, "we look to a future that will leave the forces of evil in our wake."