Bad faith.

Editor,

I could not disagree more strongly with the assertion that “The subpoena for Risen’s testimony was not issued in bad faith or for the purposes of harassment.”

Millions of documents are classified by the U.S. government in a veritable orgy of unjustifiable secrecy and bad faith.

Compelling a journalist to testify in the trial of an individual who made public information a government has made secret in bad faith is intended to achieve nothing less than to harass and intimidate government workers who have knowledge of embarrassing information improperly hidden by that government from revealing it.

Government making legal what is unconscionable and illegal what is moral is the epitome of bad faith, the epitome of corruption, and the epitome of cynicism, arrogance, and contempt for the people it governs.

Re: "In Major Ruling, Court Orders Times Reporter to Testify" (7/20/2013)