Carl Levin actually said...

"These are damn good witnesses."

"Well, I have got to tell you, if they do not want us to do this, they should flat out tell us privately."

"It is wrong in terms of American security for us to be attacked by Pakistani leaders for doing something which they quite obviously know we are going to do and support."

"But it is unacceptable to me to be pilloried by the Pakistani leaders, criticized in their public for carrying out these attacks."