When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon's top aides - H.R. Haldeman, John… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a decade ago,… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11. — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
