“He’s my father.

He worked so hard.

I know he was under pressure.”

“Both can be true,” she said.

“He may have been exhausted and overwhelmed, and he still had a responsibility to keep you safe.”

“What if something happens to him because of what I said?”

“The decisions belong to the people who made them and the officials reviewing the evidence.

Telling the truth isn’t the same as creating what happened.”