Richard Ben-Veniste

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

— Richard Ben-Veniste

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No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

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Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

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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 the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

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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 planes as weapons was discussed. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

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Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

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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. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

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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 up to those who were decision-makers. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

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