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Barbara Olson
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Olson's wife, legal commentator Barbara Olson, was killed during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. She was on the hijacked airplane that crashed into the Pentagon. Before the crash, she called her husband on her cellular phone.
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Barbara Olson, 46, was locked in the toilet when the passengers and crew were ordered to the back of the airliner. A spokesman for Mr Olson said: "She called and said she was locked in the toilet and the plane had been hijacked.
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From 1995 to 1996 Barbara Olson served as Chief Investigative Counsel for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. There she proved herself an intrepid collector and reviewer of documents regarding Hillary Clinton's supposed involvement in the White House's controversial firing of employees at its travel office, and the White House's murky acquisition of more than 900 FBI security files of past White House employees, mostly Republicans.
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Olson was born Barbara Kay Bracher in Houston, Texas. (Her older sister, Toni Bracher-Lawrence, has been a member of the Houston City Council since 2004.) She graduated from Waltrip High School[1] and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saint Thomas in Houston.
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Barbara Olson led a life of distinguished public and private service as an attorney in Washington, D.C. She came to the law after successful ventures as a ballet dancer and a Hollywood production manager. A 1989 graduate of Cardozo Law School, Barbara's legal career included tours of duty in the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel and as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorneys Office in Washington, D.C. She ... served as Deputy General Counsel and Solicitor to the U.S. House of Representatives, and Chief Investigative Counsel to the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight and as Counsel to the Assistant Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate. At the time of her tragic death, Barbara was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law office of Balch & Bingham.
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Like her husband, Barbara Olson was a lawyer. She fully understood, as her book explains, such rights as a jury trial, protection from double jeopardy and the right to confront accusers, for example, as well as the protection afforded life-tenured American jurists, would not exist as we know them under the ICC.
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