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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."

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"If you don't' know what you want, others will give you what they want."

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"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."

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"Not making a decision means forgoing an opportunity."

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Richard Ben Veniste
"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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Richard Ben Veniste
"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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Richard Ben Veniste
"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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Richard Ben Veniste
"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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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
"No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe."

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Richard Ben Veniste
"It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly."

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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."

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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."

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

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