His point is that he wanted to discuss the technical details of the cipher design and not the political background story. He specifically said he agrees that it

His point is that he wanted to discuss the technical details of the cipher design and not the political background story. He specifically said he agrees that it seems sensible ISO has not adopted this standard in light of NSA's subversive Dual EC DRBG deception, but that it also is very unlikely these ciphers contain or could contain a backdoor. He's not at all arguing that ISO is in the wrong to decline accepting the algorithms or that the politics don't matter; just that they probably didn't backdoor these 2 particular algorithms. NSA has voided all of their goodwill, no doubt, but that's not what he was addressing. I imagine the cryptographers working at NSA who are genuinely trying to design secure, non-backdoored algorithms are very unhappy at how badly their organization shot themselves in the foot.