﻿ [ LETTERS ] - Taipei Times Wed, Dec 28, 2011 - Page 8　News
List   US meddling in democracy  It is a shame that despite
protests of neutrality, someone or some ones in the US executive
office are once again trying to meddle in Taiwan’s presidential
election. Since Taiwan is a democracy, this makes such meddling
all the more shameful.  First, we had the “secret leak” to the
Financial Times that US President Barack Obama’s administration
was displeased and mistrustful of Democratic Progressive Party
presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) almost immediately
after her visit to Washington. The leak was of course
“confidential,” (such leaks always are to avoid individual
responsibility and blame for meddling), but allegedly from “high
up, reliable [read: cowardly] sources.”  The almost immediate
action of the leak barely after Tsai’s plane had left the ground
indicates it was either pre-planned or Tsai did not give the
“patsy” answers to questions asked that the US wanted. One has
to remember that the US has fo