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23 quotes by Richard Ben-Veniste

Richard Ben-Veniste (born January 3, 1943), is an American lawyer. He first rose to prominence as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. He has also been a member of the 9/11 Commission. He is known for his pointed questions and criticisms of members of both the Clinton[citation needed] and George W. Bush administrations.
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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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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 which... →

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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... →

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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 of collaboration in any... →

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

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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 two al Qaeda... →

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No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

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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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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... →

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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 it best we could, trying to get... →

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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 notion of using... →

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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... →

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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... →

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