Richard Ben-Veniste

With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

I like Harvey Keitel. I liked him in Mean Streets. Im a fan.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough,…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

I like Harvey Keitel. I liked him in 'Mean Streets.' I'm a fan.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11.…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.

— Richard Ben-Veniste