Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone’s short-attention spans.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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| Birth: | 27th December, 1955 |
| Death: | 11th September, 2001 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist |
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Barbara Olson was a lawyer and conservative American television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks. Olson was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House published October 2001 at the time of her death. She was a resident of Great Falls, Virginia.
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