110 1 the court that you had been asking the government for 2 consent since, I believe it was the Summer of 2014; is 3 that consistent with your recollection? 4 A. The exact timing, you know, if I looked at 5 the documents, we could refresh my recollection. We put 6 those documents into the court record in January 21st, 7 2015, the correspondence that we had had. The U.S. 8 Attorney's Office had delayed, you know, giving us an 9 answer on that for as I recall, several months and 10 ultimately they said, no, and that's why we filed the 11 pleading. 12 Q. Okay. My question is: Why, during that 13 several-month period before you filed the motion itself, 14 did you not contact Professor Dershowitz to ask him if 15 this was true, and if he had any evidence to refute it? 16 Why not contact the person you're accusing? 17 A. I mean, there's a cost -- you know, again, 18 this is going take a little bit of an answer, not as 19 long as the other one. 20 Q. I won't cut you off. 21 A. No, you have been very polite. I appreciate 22 that. This is about a five-minute answer, just so you 23 got a heads-up. 24 Okay. So the issue of why didn't I contact 25 Mr. Dershowitz, it's a cost benefit situation. So what ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021933