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Richard Ben-Veniste

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 the

Richard Ben-Veniste

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Richard Ben-Veniste is saying that before the 9/11 attacks, intelligence agencies already had information indicating that two al Qaeda members involved in the attacks were inside the United States. However, despite having this knowledge, they failed to identify or locate these individuals in time to prevent the disaster.

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