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Q Was the Department of Justice contacted by victims or their attorneys to create this list? A I believe so. I also believe the list was ongoing, and while the redactions were being done, I recall we would receive more victims' names. Therefore, the attorneys doing the redactions would have to go back and search for the additional names as well. Q What information would have been used to inform the list of victim names for redactions? A I don't recall. Q Is it safe to assume that Todd Blanche would've been the individual who would've approved -- A Yes. Q -- this list? A Yes. Q Understanding the time constraints related to 30 days of redacting millions of pages of documents, it seems that there were still some redaction mistakes. A Yes. Q Is that correct? And these redaction mistakes were both underinclusive and overinclusive. How did that happen? A I believe, given the volume of documents and, again, the intense, short timeframe in which hundreds of lawyers were working around the clock even on holidays to get these documents out, there were mistakes. I believe Todd Blanche said it was about a 1 percent error rate. But I would say we all believed if one victim's name is inadvertently released, that's a failure. Q If the Department was made aware of a mistake, how did it respond? A By correcting that mistake as fast as we could. Q And, again, would that have been -- fallen to then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche?