Richard Ben-Veniste Quotes

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• Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.
• With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed…
• No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.
• Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort…
• In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a decade ago, it…
• Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of…
• While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the margin…
• And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think…
• Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.
• But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did…
• 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…
• 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…
• It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.
• Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9-11. We knew that…
• Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places…
• 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 and…
• 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 along…
• 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 not…
• Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9-11 that's thorough, complete and will…

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