It was disclosed that Won Se Hun, former director of the Intelligence Service (IS), and Kim Yong Phan, former director of the Seoul District Police Agency, were involved in the IS's criminal interference in politics, the editorial said, and went on:

Won Se Hun had openly interfered in each election, labeling progressive and democratic forces including opposition parties, civic organizations and trade unions opposed to the misrule of the "government" as "leftist forces following the north," since right after he took office in February 2009.

Kim Yong Phan pressurized his staff to make public intermediary investigation results peppered with lies and fabrications after destroying the evidence proving the crimes committed by a female staff member of the IS.

Under the political pressure behind the scene, the prosecution did not issue even a warrant of arrest for criminals but it fired and indicted only the staff member of the IS who complained about suspected crime.

No one would believe that the director of the IS interfered in politics and election unilaterally without the chief executive's instruction and the director of the police agency fabricated the false investigation results by himself without any agreement with the ruling quarters.

The present chief executive should own responsibility for groundless smear campaign through the intelligence organ, the editorial held.