By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Army prosecutors on Tuesday asked an investigative officer to recommend a death penalty court-martial for an Army staff sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a predawn rampage, saying that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales committed "heinous and despicable crimes."
"Terrible, terrible things happened," said Maj. Rob Stelle, the prosecutor who delivered closing arguments in the preliminary hearing. "That is clear."
