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

A condemned killer's fight to receive surgery for agonizing hip pain pushed Kentucky officials into an uncomfortable debate over security, politics and even the possibility of public ridicule from Fox News pundits.
A major study challenges the way diabetics and others with failing kidneys have been treated for half a century, finding that three-times-a-week dialysis to cleanse the blood of toxins may not be enough.
Foley said the brace helped with the pain in an affidavit signed in February, but prison officials confiscated it.
Ky. officials torn over expensive surgery for death-row inmate →