Authority Quote by 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 goodness, we're…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

— George Pataki

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

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

— Raymond Kelly

If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters…

— Richard Burr

Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.

— Barack Obama

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

— Edward Snowden

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the…

— Robert Mueller

Unfortunately, once a person who is willing to act against the interests of the United States assumes the awesome powers of the presidency, the…

— Asha Rangappa

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the…

— Robert Mueller

“A careful analysis of the September 11th attacks reveals that deficiencies in U.S. intelligence collection and information sharing, not immigration laws, prevented the terrorists’…

— Bill Ong Hing

The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard