The smoking gun in the case against Richard Blumenthal is a videotape of a 2008 event in Norwalk on which Richard Blumenthal recalls the days that he served in Vietnam.
And Hearst Newspapers' Brian Lockhart has tracked it down to a senior housing facility in Norwalk.
The housing complex director Mary Windt said her staff "filmed the festivities and later provided DVD copies to all of the attendees, including Norwalk's mayor, various state legislators, the lieutenant governor, Blumenthal and then-U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, who is the focus of a New York Times story alleging that Blumenthal's military exaggerations developed over time.