The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center. — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed. — 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
