Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"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."

"the Supreme Court is not necessarily an absolutely clear and non-controversial source of law."

"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 ..."