From Wikipedia
>>During the investigations by White House independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Blumenthal was called to the Grand Jury to testify on matters related to what Clinton had told both Blumenthal and his senior staff in regard to Monica Lewinsky. It was on this occasion that Blumenthal was accused by the independent counsel of seeking to discredit the office of the counsel by passing stories to the media about Starr and his aides. The resultant statement by Blumenthal on the steps of the Grand Jury about the freedom of the press after his testimony resulted in a public fall of support for Starr and his investigations of the President.[5]<<
Right. Blumenthal, judicially documented character assassin and liar.
Blumenthal smeared Ken Starr by telling lies about questions asked during his grand jury testimony. The lies were designed by the Clinton attack machine to, among other things, falsely paint Starr as a religious extremist who was attacking freedom of the press. The media was then a willing accomplice to the smears against Starr.
The prosecutors could not adequately refute Blumenthal’s numerous lies without revealing confidential grand jury info in violation of the law. Starr and his prosecutors could not show that Blumenthal was lying until after the grand jury testimony was legally released by Congress, months after the testimony.
By the time that copies of the GJ testimony were released, the Clinton impeachment process was so far along, that Blumenthal’s documented lying was largely overlooked, especially by the Clinton supporting press.
When Blumenthal returned to the grand jury one time, a juror questioned Blumenthal and chided him for previously lying about what was going on in the GJ room. Blumenthal just sloughed it off, knowing that jurors and prosecutors alike were helpless to refute his lies in a timely fashion, b/c of GJ secrecy rules. (Unlike prosecutors and jurors, a witness usually is free to describe what happened during his own testimony.)
In a separate instance, Christopher Hitchens described how smear merchant Blumenthal was involved with spreading dirt on Kathleen Willey.