Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I thought so, and as you know, Ms. Caldwell was responsible for the Enron prosecution, so she is certainly aware and sensitive to the importance of whistleblowers in major prosecutions."

"The bottom line is nobody knows what the Supreme Court would say when confronted with such an extensive and ongoing program of this kind."

"I think if we had come forward and opined on some balancing test or some other aspect and had not looked at the statute carefully, people would have criticized us, 'Well, you did not read the statute...."

"It is illegal."