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Q Okay. Shifting to the security cameras, which we talked about a little bit, but I want to talk about the circumstances surrounding the cameras a little bit more, that there were 11 or so in or around the SHU entrance and exits, hallways. And we already discussed the one pointing straight down L block, and then we watched the footage from the one pointing into the common area. There was a DVR failure that resulted in these cameras working in real time but not recording. Does that -- do you recall that? A It was my understanding that a number of the cameras were not recording, although they were still streaming live. Q And the DVR failure was -- for a while, had been going on for a while but was discovered on August 8th. Does that sound -- A I didn't know that at the time but subsequently found that out. Q And then kind of the process of getting it back on -- A Getting it fixed. Q -- getting it fixed took longer than expected, I think -- A Yes. Q -- is correct? Is that right? A Yes. I was not aware of this as it was going on. I was aware shortly after the suicide that the cameras had apparently failed, and there was an effort that went on for, I would say, more than 1 day, you know, of the Bureau going in to -- with technical experts to try to still capture something and go over the disk and stuff like that. Q Do you recall the explanation given for the failure of the cameras? A No. I can't remember the details of it, but I did monitor the technical people were working hard on trying to get it, and then, you know, I saw whatever that was what they had. Q Do you recall seeing any evidence of tampering with the DVR system? A The Bureau, I don't think, believed it was tampered. They felt it was -- there was a