President Chen Shui-bian, speaking on the evening of August 14 to a group of overseas Taiwanese in the capital of the Dominican Republic, stated with an air of determination, "We will get to the bottom of this case, even if it shakes our government to its foundations."
出訪邦交國的陳水扁總統，在八月十四日晚間於多明尼加首都與僑民、台商餐敘時，也以相當堅定的語氣宣示尹清楓命案「即使動搖國本也要偵辦到底」。