The questioning was "terrifying in its unchecked totalitarianism, its pointless voyeurism," said the French tabloid France-Soir.
The testimony was "an execution", raged Austria's Standard, warning that "we are witnessing the final act of a witchhunt which goes beyond the acceptable". Germany's Tagesspiel said that Monday would go down in history as "the day when the judicial committee of Congress sabotaged the so-far inalienable right to a fair trial, in order to feed what it felt was insatiable public opinion".