Robert Menendez actually said...

I mentioned in my opening statement that 17 of my colleagues joined with me in a letter to the Secretary, and it is our concern about HAMP.

Because on December 21, 1988, 270 innocent people were sent to their deaths at the hands of a Libyan terrorist, a mass murderer named Abdelb...

So, in essence, it was our desire to seek a prosecution that had us make the determination, based on what the British were telling us, that ...

And that would placate hard-liners who might challenge Qaddafi.