Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I do not understand what resource intensive... it looks like it is going to cost a lot."

"I wonder if you could comment in particular on the testimony, very compelling testimony, from Mr. Salgado about the need for transparency."

"Very few judges would permit a proceeding before them in which only one side is presented because they know that the core principle of our judicial system is that it is adversarial."

"I have proposed that there be a constitutional advocate to, in effect, provide some adversarial process within the FISA Court."