Government secrets can be pretty killer

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What can you say, dear, after you say I’m sorry … for deliberately infecting you with syphilis as part of a secret government experiment?

Secretary of State Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius probably wondered as much a week ago Friday, after having to issue an awkward joint apology for just such a program — funded by the U.S. government from 1946 to 1948.

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