Richard Blumenthal actually said...

To have them taken over by a repressive foreign regime certainly is a matter of our national security.

Are you bound by the non-disparagement clause that is very specifically stated in the agreement?

If any person had the remotest connection to an attack on our country and the murder of my friends, I am the last guy that would be sitting ...

It is also about hypocrisy, how vast sums of money can induce individuals and institutions to betray their own values.