Yu Zhenghuang's lawyers issued a statement at night criticizing the Director of National Security for harming the public.

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[Reporter Zhang Wenchuan/Taipei Report] Yu Zhenghuang, the investigator of the Bureau of Investigation, sued the former Hsinchu Mayor Lin Zhijian for violating the copyright law. The regiment issued a statement to counter that Chen Mingtong, as the head of the National Security Bureau, used personal interests to harm the public.

Yu Zhenghuang's lawyer's statement pointed out that Yu Zhenghuang's master's thesis was written by himself, so there is no such thing as plagiarizing any part of what Lin Zhijian called "public edition".

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Secondly, the text written by Lin Zhijian on February 1, 2016 was written by Yu Zhenghuang and handed over to Chen Mingtong. However, in order to avoid plagiarism by others, the APA annotations will be removed. Therefore, Lin Zhijian’s February 1, 2016 None of the so-called drafts have any APA annotations.

The statement stated that Chen Mingtong issued a statement on January 12 this year, saying that "Yu Zhenghuang only added a little literature review and cited it", which is purely nonsense.

Gai Fan who has written articles and papers knows that it is impossible to know the source of the text in an article without any annotations, and it is even more impossible to find a needle in a haystack to find the cited article. This is a matter of common sense. A professor, who is also the head of the National Security Bureau, actually put forward such a view.

The legal team pointed out that Chen Mingtong is an interested party in this case, and it is more concerned with the legitimacy of his teaching position at National Taiwan University before retirement. He should have respected the internal investigation of National Taiwan University and waited for the court to clarify. Manuscripts, speaking through the media, and the demeanor that a teacher should have.

Taking a step back, even if Chen Mingtong claimed that the source of February 1, 2016 was the "official version" written by Chen Mingtong, and this "official version" lacks annotations, as a senior professor at National Taiwan University, does it mean that he thinks he has plagiarized a lot of other scholars? Such a statement is obviously absurd.

The statement concluded by emphasizing that Chen Mingtong, as the head of the National Security Bureau, is turbulent in the international situation and the situation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is unstable. However, he used his self-inflicted harm to the public for the sake of Lin Zhijian's thesis, and devoted himself to dealing with Yu Zhenghuang. I may violate the heavy responsibility of being the director of the National Security Bureau. Please think twice.