Richard Blumenthal said...

First, this committee and Congress have never accepted that kind of assertion as a basis to evade questioning.

I haven’t seen anything like it in 15 years in the United States Senate, just overriding roughshod the rules of the comm...

This is a really offensive defiance of the constitutional role that the Senate has to play.

Certainly, this mission was successful insofar as it extensively destroyed and perhaps severely damaged.