Carl Levin actually said...

"I mean, a lot of things are unacceptable. But on degrees of unacceptability, is this not kind of shocking?"

"So as Exhibit 55 says so simply and eloquently and dramatically, your own people 'were being asked to `fudge' the nature of the payments to avoid the U.S. embargo and seizure.'"

"I was really angry to find there had been an audit report on these in the previous year, but that it had been closed off with no action."

"I just do not understand it."