Claire McCaskill actually said...

If you did that, if you took the impetus to do that, that would remove the necessity of them being branded as whistleblowers.

Do you acknowledge, either one of you, that you have an issue with the culture there, that people do not believe they can come forward?

But you did not think it was a courtesy to let them know that you fired her.

we are captured by the severity of the situation and the technical expertise that is required