Harper's September issue prints some letters "by John Cutler, a surgeon with the U.S. Public Health Service, to doctors at the Marine Hospital in Staten Island, New York. Between 1946 and 1948, Cutler oversaw medical experiments in which hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers, orphans, and mental health patients were deliberately infected with gonorrhea and syphilis. Cutler was later involved with the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, which monitored the progression of the disease in African-American subjects who believed they were receiving health care from the U.S. government. After Wellesley professor Susan Reverby exposed the Guatemala experiments last fall, President Barack Obama apologized to Guatemala. The National Archives released Cutler's full correspondence on March 29."

Why not bring those involved to justice and death sentence them as Nazi torturers and mass murderers? How don't the Nurnberg trials not set a precedent for crimes against humanity for non German national Nazis? Why do we need to apologize? How was this national policy, how could it have been? How has human experimentation been legal in this country? Why did Napolitano mild the report on extreme rightist terrorism when Conservatives balked? What the HELL is this?