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

With four months to go until Election Day, President Obama's well-funded campaign on the airwaves is focusing on two broad themes: that he is a fighter for the middle class who needs more time to finish the job, and that Republican rival Mitt Romney is obsessed with corporate profits to the point of being borderline unpatriotic.

Think of super PACs as shadow cash machines for presidential candidates. They're going to be big this year. Real big.