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

A laid-off clothing designer fatally shot an executive at his former company outside the Empire State Building on Friday, setting off a chaotic showdown with police in front of one of the world's best-known landmarks. Officers killed the gunman and at least nine others were wounded, some by stray police gunfire, authorities said.
' but it was real."
"It was like 'CSI,' but it was real."