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Facts about Richard Ben-Veniste

Occup.Lawyer
FromUSA
BornJanuary 3, 1943
Age81 years

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Richard Ben-Veniste is a famous Lawyer from USA, he/she is 81 years old and still alive, born January 3, 1943.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac capricorn, who is known for Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful. Our collection contains 16 quotes who is written / told by Richard.

16 Famous quotes by Richard Ben-Veniste

Small: Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occ
"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 not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events"
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Small: No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe
"No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe"
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Small: The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States.
"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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Small: But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do
"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 answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer"
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Small: With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so t
"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"
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Small: Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an in
"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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Small: Well, changes have been made. The question is whether weve done enough by way of change
"Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change"
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Small: Weve got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear
"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 will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report"
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Small: Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11
"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11"
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Small: Weve had public hearings. Weve had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to t
"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 public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time"
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Small: Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquirys investigation and we will not be re-invent
"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"
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Small: Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelli
"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 operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them"
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Small: It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly
"It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly"
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Small: And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that
"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 quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals"
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Small: So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of doz
"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"
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Small: Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate.
"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 effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests"
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