Richard Ben-Veniste quotes

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. (Richard Ben-Veniste)
Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste
Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste
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. View quote
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. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste
No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste
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. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste
I like Harvey Keitel. I liked him in 'Mean Streets.' I'm a fan. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste
Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste