Barbara Olson Quotes
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
Olson, Barbara. On-air commentary. CNN, Turner Broadcasting System, 1998.
In the first real code of laws of the first American Coony in Virginia,, lying under oath was a capital offense.
Abrams had been convicted of "withholding information from Congress" in his Congressional testimony.
the CIA and the FBI This was not the only time where the CIA and the FBI impeded investigations of serious criminals. Both for example withheld evidence and lied to the Warren Commission investigating the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. The FBI for years helped Southern Law Enforcement officials cover up their and other racial murders and assaults. The CIA had a history of lying to a number of presidents. Each time a reorganization and house cleaning promised to change the agency, but it only works for a while. In the case of the Nazis, it started with our intelligence agencies trying to bring Nazi and Japanese scientists who had committed war crimes to the U. S. to help develop weapons against the Russians, who were also lying to their own people and bringing them to Russia to develop weapons for use against the West. Then Nazi spymasters were brought over and soon, any Nazi War criminal who would claim that he and information about the Communists of Eastern Europe or Russia. Finally, it was lower level Nazi concentration camp guards who had murdered inmates. At that time the intelligence agencies did not want American knowing that many war criminals were living well in the United States even though they were often wanted for crimes in Germany of other European countries. So they preferred that the investigations cease and the media not focus on the problem. There is no evidence that President Reagan knew about the investigation obstructions, however his assistant Pat Buchanan had a history of trying to stop of delay the deportation of Nazi War criminals who had lied on their applications to enter the United States. Many analysts noted a tendency toward anti-semitism in his personal and public life, and he was particularly unconcerned when the victims of the war crimes had been Russians or other European communists.
Barbara Kay Olson was an American lawyer and conservative 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. Her original plan had been to fly to California on September 10, but she delayed her departure until the next morning so that she could wake up with her husband on his birthday, September 11.
