I WOULD LIKE to rectify a number of mis-conceptions in Michael Fonte's essay "TheDPP Calls for Round Two" published in theOctober 2009 issue. Firstly, charges of apolitical vendetta against the DPP are ut-terly unfounded. The Special Investiga-tion Division of the Supreme Prosecutors'Office, which conducted investigations ofand ultimately indicted and prosecutedformer President Chen Shui-bian, was es-tablished during his presidency, and theprosecutor-general who oversaw the SIDwas appointed by Mr. Chen himself. TheSID waited until Mr. Chen's presidentialterm expired to initiate the prosecutorialaction against him only because a sittingpresident is constitutionally immune fromprosecution.
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