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68 In the context—without other context, I don't want to answer that question without talking to my attorneys and seeing the transcript.

Of the statements that you made.

Yes.

So you don't have any independent recollection of saying, "These are the mistakes, intentional or otherwise, that led to January 6th"?

What I'm saying is, I will address it. I want to be provided with the entire transcript for that—

I don't have the entire transcript. It's an article that was—

Then I don't think I can fairly and accurately answer your question without having reviewed the entire statement with my counsel, is what I'm saying.

So you want the opportunity to review your own statement that you made to a news outlet about January 6th before you answer my question about what you describe as an intentional mistake made by the Bureau.

I think it is an appropriate and fair request, if you are going to read something in part that I said, that you provide me with the entirety of that statement and allow me—

Okay.

—and afford me the opportunity to talk to counsel.

Putting the statement aside, Mr. Patel, do you think that there was some intelligence that should've triggered a better response on January 6th?

Do I think so?

Yes.

I think that, if you recall the posture around Washington in and around January 6th, independent businesses had boarded up, such as Starbucks and Dunkin'