"Well, our statute provides us with authority to……" — 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, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history."
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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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The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew…
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