"The real question was, here we had this……" — 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 struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center."
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Richard Ben-Veniste
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19 Quotes by Richard Ben-Veniste
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Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.
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With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information…
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No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.
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Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence…
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In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable…
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Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering…
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While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may…
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And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to…
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Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.
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But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job…
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So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens…
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It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.
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