Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"the pending appropriations bill, the omnibus bill, contains some provisions which I have added that will finally make public, as much as can be made public, a lot of specific data about what has been ..."

"The U.S. Government must protect at once two different forms of security: national security and personal privacy."

"The provision of an adversarial proceeding such as you have described, which reflects the change in the role of the Court."

"Congress under the United States Constitution has an equal responsibility to protect the Constitution."