The public will never know for sure whether former Prosecutor-General Chen Tsung-ming tipped off Huang Fang-yen, who was a key figure in the corruption case against former President Chen Shui-bian, to flee the country. However the Control Yuan's impeachment of the top prosecutor suggests that he preferred Huang to escape for fear that Huang, during questioning by investigators, would have compromised Chen Tsung-ming's career by making public the association between them both. According to the findings of the Control Yuan's probe, Chen Tsung-ming and former Minister of Justice Shih Mao-lin attended a dinner party thrown by Huang at his residence. Li Ful-dien, the Control Yuan Member who co-initiated the impeachment, said Chen and Shih's presence at the dinner was not only a reckless move, but also one that gave rise to suspicion of their involvement in crime. Chen and Shih should have been aware of Huang's involvement in the corruption case against former President Chen Shui-bian, simply by reading the newspapers, according to Chien-Lin Whei-jun, the other initiator of the impeachment. This shows how absurd Chen Tsung-ming's argument was when he said that the Control Yuan's impeachment, if it sticks, would mean 'no one should associate with friends of the leader.' But we have to point out that Huang is no ordinary friend of Chen Shui-bian and Chen Tsung-ming is not an ordinary individual. We wonder why some prosecutors would rally behind such a controversial chief prosecutor and come to his defense even after his impeachment. If members of the law enforcement system do not realize that they need a leader who is independent of the ruling team, then they have only themselves to blame for the system's lack of credibility. 