ng on Wednesday that he takes responsibility for mistakes that were made, but noted that department lawyers were given a  herculean task  to quickly review millions of files for release. Blanche said department lawyers took pains to protect the women involved, and quickly fixed any errors that were found.

 I am sorry that in about 1% of the documents mistakes were made,  Blanche said Wednesday.  But what I will say on top of that is we put tons of resources to rectifying those mistakes immediately, including pulling down documents within minutes of being informed that there were mistakes.