上週Taipei Times曾採訪到前美國副總統錢尼（Dick Cheney）亞太事務助理Stephen Yates（葉望輝）的說法（顯示本案層級已經拉高至華府政治圈了）：
“Given the provision of law that was cited as justification for the detentions, how is it that for the last six months the Republic of China was safe up until the eve of the visit of Chen Yunlin, [and only then] did these people needed to be locked up?” Yates said. “It’s a little bit of a stretch of the imagination. And by the way, just because this law is on the books, it was written for a bygone era. Do the people of Taiwan still think this is a standard appropriate to their standard of living today?”
