FBI: Barbara Olsen DID NOT CALL Ted Olsen. Bush Solicitor General LIED!

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BREAKING 9/11 NEWS: FBI Says Barbara Olsen Did Not Call Ted Olsen. Bush Solicitor General LIED !!

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Nationally syndicated talk show host Charles Goyette uncovered blockbuster information in his drive-time interview with author David Ray Griffin.

A center piece of the increasingly apparent BULLSH*T story our government and corporate media have fed us for six long years was a complete fabrication!

We were fed a lie by Ted Olsen who served as Solictor General for the Bush Administration, when on 9/11 he held a press conference to tell America and the world that his dead wife had called him before her demise from the jet she was on that had just been hijacked.

Personally, I thought it was odd at the time that a man would decide to hold a press conference minutes after hearing of his own wife’s death, when it happened on 9/11.  If my own wife had just died, the last thing I’d want to do would be to talk to anyone, let alone call a press conference.  It didn’t “smell” right.

Now we know why it didn’t smell right.  It was a lie.  The FBI has reported that no such call between Barbara Olsen and Ted Olsen ever took place on 9/11/2001.

It was part of the rapidly unraveling scam that is the official story of 9/11.

In fact, Griffin went on to explain that there is zero evidence that any hijackers had commandeered a plane at all.  True Bush believers will say, whao, wait a minute, we all know they did.  How do you know?  Because Bush told you.

But, as Griffin rightly points out, in this interview, there is no “EVIDENCE” of their existence.

Which also reveals that mis-information shill, Popular Mechanics, in their 9/11 interview on the Charles Goyette Show months ago, lied when they told us there was DNA evidence of the so-called Muslim hijackers.  LIES, all lies.
 
Find links to the entire interviews of February 19, 2008, at:
http://www.911blogger.com/node/13946
 
When will corporate media stop their participation in a criminal cover up?  If the former Solicitor General lying to America by creating a complete fabrication he spread around the world through corporate media, is not a story worthy of CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, Democracy Now, The Nation, Rolling Stone, PBS, NPR, and all the other fourth estate . . . then they have no right to refer to themselves as media.

They should forever in the future refer to themselves as “The Propaganda Ministry.”

So, how can we break through the hijacking of our media in America?  How can we get the mass culture to be exposed to hard questions around 9/11?

We must use guerilla tactics, and take opportunities when they come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OioYWUmRcuw

On January 22nd, 2008, a New York Times best selling novelist, put his career on the line to write an explosive new edu-tainment book called “The Shell Game.”

Since that has happened he’s been attacked, his personal emails have been publicized, his home address, a google map to his home, his phone number and other personal information has been posted on the internet.

Media that had interviewed him on all his other books have shunned him.  The big publishing houses that would have published his normal thrillers closed their doors to “The Shell Game,” and major book publicizing events he’d been invited to in the past, have mysteriously cancelled his speaking engagements.

In spite of that in the 2nd week of “The Shell Game”s release, it rose to #31 on the New York Times best seller list.  A growing army of Americans hungry to create a mass demand for a new 9/11 investigation have come to support the success of “The Shell Game.”

Why?  Within the pages of “The Shell Game” real 9/11 research is exposed.  The Shell Game’s website www.TheShellGame.net has links to most major 9/11 truth websites.

Author, Steve Alten, has hitched his explosive novel to be coupled with David Ray Griffin’s upcoming non-fiction book, in order to give it more exposure faster.

Anyone who wants to create a mass demand for 9/11 truth and a new investigation, should do everything in their power to promote “The Shell Game,” in every way they can think of doing.  At www.TheShellGame.net they’ll find to powerful 90 second video trailers that warn the public of false flag terror strikes by an American President to fool us into war with Iran.
 
Last week, both Bush and Chertoff warned we’d see a devastating attack on America soon.  “The Shell Game” warns of just such an event.  To get the most massive number of Americans reading such a book, will make it VERY difficult for Bush/Chertoff to realize their dream of another false flag attack on America.

SPREAD THE WORD, WIDE, FAR AND FAST – WWW.THESHELLGAME.NET



By William E. Douglas, Jr., who is author of "The Amateur Parent – A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe." Bill has been a guest columnist for the Kansas City Star, The Business Journal, and other media worldwide. His past essays include, "Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts," "The Explosion of the 9-11 Truth Movement -- US Media's Dirty Little Secret," "Good Night, and Good Luck - WMD, NIST, Popular Mechanics, 9/11 and Media Crimes" and also "Why the Jewish Community Should Demand 9/11 Truth."

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Please keep us updated on this, anyone else got anything on it?

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The Mother of All Lies About 9/11
Barbara Olson's "Phone Call" From Flight 77

Copyright Joe Vialls, 27 March 2002

This is a story about a little white lie that bred dozens of other little white lies, then hundreds of bigger white lies and so on, to the point where the first little white lie must be credited as the 'Mother of All Lies' about events on 11 September 2001.  For this was the little white lie that first activated the American psyche, generated mass loathing, and enabled media manipulation of the global population.

          Without this little white lie there would have been no Arab Hijackers, no Osama Bin Laden directing operations from afar, and no 'War on Terror' in Afghanistan and occupied Palestine. Clearly the lie was so clever and diabolical in nature, it must have been generated by the 'Power Elite' in one of its more earthly manifestations. Perhaps it was the work of the Council on Foreign Relations, or the Trilateral Commission? 

          No, it was not. Though at the time the little white lie was flagged with a powerful political name, there was and remains no evidence to support the connection. Just l ike the corrupt and premature Lee Harvey Oswald story in 1963, there are verifiable fatal errors which ultimately prove the little white lie was solely the work of members of the media. Only they had access, and only they had the methods and means.

          The little white lie was about Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator for CNN and wife of US Solicitor General Ted Olson.  Now deceased, Mrs Olson is alleged to have twice called her husband from an American Airlines Flight 77 seat-telephone, before the aircraft slammed into the Pentagon. This unsubstantiated claim, reported by CNN remarkably quickly at 2.06 am EDT [0606 GMT] on September 12, was the solitary foundation on which the spurious 'Hijacker' story was built.

          Without the 'eminent' Barbara Olson and her alleged emotional telephone calls, there would never be any proof that humans played a role in the hijack and destruction of the four aircraft that day.  Lookalike claims surfaced several days later on September 16 about passenger Todd Beamer and others, but it is critically important to remember here that the Barbara Olson story was the only one on September 11 and. 12. It was beyond question the artificial 'seed' that started the media snowball rolling down the hill.

          And once the snowball started rolling down the hill, it artfully picked up Osama Bin Laden and a host of other 'terrorists' on the way. By noon on September 12, every paid glassy-eyed media commentator in America was either spilling his guts about those 'Terrible Muslim hijackers', or liberating hitherto classified information about Osama Bin Laden. 'Oh sure, it was Bin Laden,' they said blithely, oblivious to anything apart from their television appearance fees.

          The deliberate little white lie wa s essential. Ask yourself: What would most Americans have been thinking about on September 12, if CNN had not provided this timely fiction? Would anyone anywhere have really believed the insane government story about failed Cessna pilots with box cutters taking over heavy jets, then hurling them expertly around the sky like polished Top Guns from the film of the same name?  Of course not! As previously stated there would have been no Osama Bin Laden, and no 'War on Terror' in Afghanistan and occupied Palestine.

          This report is designed to examine the sequence of the Olson events and lay them bare for public examination. Dates and times are of crucial importance here, so if this report seems tedious try to bear with me. Before moving on to discuss the impossibility of the alleged calls, we first need to examine how CNN managed to 'find out' about them, reported here in the September 12 CNN story at 2.06 am EDT:

        Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told CNN.  Shortly afterwards Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon.  Ted Olson told CNN that his wife said all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers. The only weapons she mentioned were knives and cardboard cutters. She felt nobody was in charge and asked her husband to tell the pilot what to do.

          At no point in the above report does CNN quote Ted Olson directly.  If the report was authentic and 100% attributable, it would have been phrased quite differently. Instead of  'Ted Olson told CNN that his wife said all passengers and flight personnel',  the passage would read approximately:-  Mr Olson told CNN, 'My wife said all passengers and flight personnel'  Whoever wrote this story was certainly not in direct contact with  US Solicitor General Ted Olson.

          Think about it, people! If you knew or suspected your spouse's aircraft  had just fireballed inside the Pentagon building, how would you spend the rest of the day? Initially you would certainly be in deep shock and unwilling to believe the reports. Then you would start to gather your wits together, a slow process in itself. After that and depending on  individual personality, you might drive over to the Pentagon on the off chance your spouse survived the horrific crash, or you might go home and wait for emergency services to bring you the inevitable bad news. As a matter of record, Ted Olson did not return to work until six days later.

          About the last thing on your mind [especially if you h appened to be the US Solicitor General], would be to pick up a telephone and call the CNN Atlanta news desk in order to give them a 'scoop'. As a seasoned politician you would already know that all matters involving national security must first be vetted by the National Security Council. Under the extraordinary circumstances and security overkill existing on September 11, this vetting process would have taken a minimum of two days, and more likely three.

          The timing of the CNN news release about Barbara Olson, is therefore as impossible as the New Zealand press release back in 1963 about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As reported independently by Colonel Fletcher Prouty USAF (Retired), whoever set Kennedy up, accidentally launched a  full international newswire biography on obscure ?killer? Lee Harvey Oswald, without first t aking the trouble to check his world clock.

          It was still 'yesterday' in New Zealand on the other side of the International Date Line when the biography was wired  from New York, enabling the  Christchurch Star newspaper was able to print a story about Oswald as the prime suspect in its morning edition, several hours before he was first accused of the crime by Dallas police.

          If the CNN story about Ted Olson had been correct, and he really had called them about Barbara on September 11, then he would most surely have followed the telephone call up a few days later with a tasteful 'one-on-one' television interview, telling the hushed and respectful interviewer about how badly he missed his wife, and about the sheer horror of it all.

          There is no record of any such interview in the CNN or other archives. Indeed, if you key 'Barbara Olson' into the CNN search engine, it returns only two related articles. The first is the creative invention on September 12 at 2.06 am EDT [0606 GMT], and the second is on December 12, about President Bush, who led a  White House memorial that began at 8:46 a.m. EST, the moment the first hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center three months before. CNN includes this comment about Ted Olson:

           In a poignant remembrance at the Justice Department, U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson referred to "the sufferings we have all experienced." He made no direct reference to the death of his wife, Barbara Olson, who was a passenger aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Pentagon?

          Regarding the same event, Fox News reports that, extraordinarily,  Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson then said Barbara Olson's call, made "in the midst of terrible danger and turmoil swirling around her," was a "clarion call that awakened our nation's leaders to the true nature of the events of Sept. 11."

          So Ted Olson avoided making any direct personal reference to the death of his wife. Clearly this was not good enough for someone somewhere. By the sixth month anniversary of the attack, Ted Olson was allegedly interviewed by London Telegraph reporter Toby Harnden, with his exclusive story 'She Asked Me How To Stop The Plane' appearing in that London newspaper on March 5,  thereafter renamed and syndicated around dozens of western countries as 'Revenge Of The Spitfire',  finally appearing in the West Australian newspaper on Saturday March 23, 2002.

          I have diligently tried to find a copy of this story in an American newspaper but have so far failed.  The reasons for this rather perverse external publication of Ted Olson's story are not yet clear, but it seems fair to observe that if he is ever challenged by a Senate Select Committee about the veracity of his claims, the story could not be used against him because it was published outside American sovereign territory.

          Regardless of the real reason or reasons for its publication, the story seems to have matured a lot since the first decoy news release by CNN early on September 12, 2001. Here we have considerably more detail, some of which is frankly impossible. In the alleged words of US Solicitor General Theodore Olson:

      She [Barbara] had trouble getting through, because she wasn't using her cell phone she was using the phone in the passengers' seats, said Mr Olson. I guess she didn't have her purse, because she was calling collect, and she was trying to get through to the Department of Justice, which is never very easy.  She wanted to know 'What can I tell the pilot? What can I do? How can I stop this?'

          "What Can I tell the pilot?" Yes indeed! The forged Barbara Olson telephone call claims that the flight deck crew were with her at the back of the aircraft, presumably politely ushered down there by the box cutter-wielding Muslim maniacs, who for some bizarre reason decided not to cut their throats on the flight deck. Have you ever heard anything quite so ridiculous?
 
         But it is at this juncture that we finally have the terminal error. Though the American Airlines Boeing 757 is fitted with individual telephones at each seat position, they are not of the variety where you can simply pick up the handset and ask for an operator. On many aircraft you can talk from one seat to another in the aircraft free of charge, but if you wish to access the outside world you must first swipe your credit card through the telephone. By Ted Olson?s own admission, Barbara did not have a credit card with her.
 
         It gets worse. On American Airlines there is a telephone "setup" charge of US$2.50 which can only be paid by credit card, then a US$2.50 (sometimes US$5.00) charge per minute of speech thereafter. The setup charge is the crucial element. Without paying it in advance by swiping your credit card you cannot access the external telephone network. Under these circumstances the passengers' seat phone on a Boeing 757 is a much use as a plastic toy.

      Perhaps Ted Olson made a mistake and Barbara managed to borrow a credit card from a fellow passenger. Not a chance. If Barbara had done so, once swiped through the phone, the credit card would have enabled her to call whoever she wanted to for as long as she liked, negating any requirement to call collect.
 
       Sadly perhaps, the Olson telephone call claim is proved untrue. Any American official wishing to challenge this has only to subpoena the telephone company and Justice Department records. There will be no charge originating from American Airlines 77 to the US Solicitor General.
   
      Even without this hard proof, the chances of meaningfully using a seat-telephone on Flight 77 were  nil. We know from the intermittent glimpses of the aircraft the air traffic controllers had on the radar scopes, that Flight 77 was travelling at extreme speed at very low level, pulling high 'G' turns in the process.
   
       Under these circumstances it would be difficult even reaching a phone, much less using it. Finally, the phones on the Boeing 757 rely on either ground cell phone towers or satellite bounce in order to maintain a stable connection. At very low altitude and extreme speed, the violent changes in aircraft attitude would render the normal telephone links completely unusable.
   
       Exactly the same applies with United Airlines Flight 93  that crashed before reaching any targets. The aircraft was all over the place at extreme speed on radar, but as with Flight 77 we are asked to believe that the 'hijackers' allowed a passenger called Todd Beamer to place a thirteen minute telephone call. Very considerate of them. The Pittsburg Channel put it this way in a story first posted at 1.38 pm EDT on September 16, 2001:
 
       Todd Beamer placed a call on one of the Boeing 757's on-board telephones and spoke for 13 minutes with GTE operator Lisa D. Jefferson, Beamer's wife said. He provided detailed information about the hijacking and -- after the operator told him about the morning's World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks - said he and others on the plane were planning to act against the terrorists aboard.  Note here that Mrs Lisa Beamer did not receive a telephone call from Todd personally, but was later 'told' by an operator that her husband had allegedly called. Just another unfortunate media con job for the trash can.
 
         As previously stated it is the Barbara Olson story that really counts, a view reinforced by the recent antics of the London print media. The photo at the top of this page is a copy of that printed in the West Australian newspaper. You only have to study it closely for a second to realize its full subliminal potential.
   
       Here is a studious and obviously very honest man. The US Solicitor General sits in front of a wall lined with leather-bound volumes of Supreme Court Arguments, with a photo of his dead wife displayed prominently in front of him.  Does anyone out there seriously believe that this man, a bastion of US law, would tell even a minor lie on a matter as grave as national security?
 
         Theodore Olson's own words indicate that he would be prepared to do rather more than that  On March 21, 2002 on its page A35, the Washington Post newspaper printed an article titled 'The Limits of Lying' by Jim Hoagland, who writes that a statement by Solicitor General Theodore Olson in the Supreme Court has the ring of perverse honesty.
   
        Addressing the Supreme Court of the United States of America,  US Solicitor General Theodore Olson said it is "easy to imagine an infinite number of situations . . . where government officials might quite legitimately have reasons to give false information out."

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Her husband sacrificed her for his own disgusting gains. Then he puts on a show for everyone pretending how broken up he is losing her. What a piece of filth.


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CNN LARRY KING WEEKEND
Encore Presentation: Barbara Olson Remembered
Aired January 6, 2002 - 21:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: The Pentagon, a portion of the Pentagon has collapsed...

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TED OLSON, SOLICITOR GENERAL: And I jumped for the phone, so glad that -- to hear Barbara's voice. And then she told me, "Our plane has been hijacked."

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PETER JENNINGS, ABC NEWS: Mrs. Olson, who is widely known to viewers of cable and to network television around the country, is the only, to the best of my knowledge, the only person who we have publicly identified today who has been killed...

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, an encore presentation of our tribute to Barbara Olson, brainy, brave and beautiful. She was killed September 11 aboard the hijacked plane that hit the Pentagon. Her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, shares memories of her and talks about going on after a terrible loss.

It's all next on LARRY KING WEEKEND.

A special tribute tonight to a special lady, couldn't do it without talking with her husband, Ted Olson, solicitor general of the United States. His wife, Barbara, was on that tragic flight, American Airline flight 77.

It's been more than three months. Sometimes in early stages, Ted, of -- people are numbed and then hurt and then pain and then -- what stage are we in?

TED OLSON, U.S. SOLICITOR GENERAL: Well, I don't know. You certainly are numbed. I mean, some kind of shock takes over you for a long period of time. And I've listened and talked to a lot of people that have been through somewhat comparable experiences. No experience is exactly the same. But I will tell you this, that everybody says, and it's absolutely true, family and friends keep you propped up, and you work from day to day and moment to moment. And gradually it gets a little bit more distant.

But as you know, Barbara was so full of life and such a big, huge presence, not only on the world stage but in my life, it will take forever. It will never, it will never be the same, obviously.

KING: The countless amount of time she sat right where you're sitting now on this show.

So friends, faith, and work. You went back to work very quickly.

T. OLSON: I went back to work on September 17, right away, because I felt that I had to have -- I couldn't just sit there and allow these emotions to overwhelm me. I felt that it was important to get back to work. I have a job in the government that needs to go on. I thought it was important for me and for the people that work for me, who work with me, that I be there, and that I could tell them that we're going to get back to work, and we're going to go through this.

I told the vice -- I gathered everybody in my office together, and we talked a little bit about Barbara, and I told them I was going to be OK, but I would need their help to be OK. And the people in my office responded beautifully. I love those people. They're -- many people are career people working for the government, and they surrounded me and propped me up like people that I've known for 20 or 30 years. It was a very gratifying experience.

KING: Have you been inside the Pentagon?

T. OLSON: No, I haven't gone to the Pentagon. I don't plan to do that.

KING: Didn't you, though, speak at a Pentagon ceremony?

T. OLSON: No, the ceremony that I think you're referring to was in the Department of Justice on December 11. And each of the agencies of government had a remembrance that day, the president at the White House, Secretary Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, and then I spoke at the Department of Justice ceremony.

KING: It'll be a while before you can go there, do you think?

T. OLSON: Yes, I don't even know if I ever will go there. Barbara's not there, Barbara's now been buried, thank goodness, and...

KING: They sent you some remains.

T. OLSON: They -- we -- they -- It took a long time to provide an identification, and then it took a long time because this is not just a tragedy, it's a criminal act, and there were evidence-gathering necessities. But finally they did release the remains of Barbara. And she's buried up in Door County, Wisconsin, very close to where she appeared on your show so many times last summer and a couple summers before, because she loved that place so much, and she's there now.

Thank goodness...

KING: Whenever we see that scene, when it was not this set, it was Wisconsin.

T. OLSON: Ellison Bay, Wisconsin. She just thought it was so great to be on your show from Ellison Bay, Wisconsin. She was proud of the fact that both Larry King in Los Angeles and somebody in New York and somebody in Washington and Barbara Olson in Ellison Bay would sit...

KING: Ellison Bay, Wisconsin. So you don't think you'll ever go to the Pentagon. And have you been down to the World Trade Center?

T. OLSON: No, I haven't done that either. I may go to those places. I'm not sure, I just don't -- I'm not ready to go to those places. I don't feel the need to go to those places. Maybe I will. I mean, I think that's part of growing through this thing.

KING: We want to talk about Barbara and the holiday season and your memories and the like, but I must ask, did you watch the bin Laden tape?

T. OLSON: No. I didn't, I didn't watch it...

(CROSSTALK)

KING: By design, you didn't watch it.

T. OLSON: That's right. I didn't watch it, I didn't want to watch it. And it's very important not to carry the kind of anger and bitterness that a person might naturally feel. It seems to me that it doesn't do any good. I don't -- I'm very, very confident in our president and Secretary Rumsfeld and the people that are handling -- the -- Attorney General Ashcroft. And I don't need to be personally involved in that, and I don't think that that would be any good for me, to...

KING: It would have been very painful to see the man who is taking credit for killing your wife.

T. OLSON: Yes, it would have been very painful. And I didn't think it was necessary for me to see it. I would have -- certainly I would have been angry. I would have been very upset by it. And it doesn't do me any good to be angry at that person.

KING: Does it hurt that it's still a major story every day? You hear his name every day.

T. OLSON: I live with that as a reality. And I think it's important for all of the people -- I'm just one of several thousand people who have suffered something equally awful. I think that each of us are coping in our own way with what happened. Other people suffer tragedies every day. Ours is somewhat special. But I think it's very important that we each cope with it as best we can. I think it's important to us, I think it's important in my situation to the country, certainly important to me, that I cope with this and now allow it to swallow me up.

KING: The holiday season can be very painful to people for many reasons. What about this one for you?

T. OLSON: Well, this is going to be very difficult. It's the first one. Barbara loved Christmas. She put Christmas everywhere in her house, inside, outside. I could hardly restrain her from putting up more lights every year. Also her birthday was two days after Christmas, and Barbara was very insistent that her birthday not be swallowed by Christmas. So we celebrated Christmas with every ounce of our being, and every...

KING: She loved Christmas?

T. OLSON: She loved Christmas. But then it was very important that her birthday came next, and we celebrated her birthday, because Barbara, as everybody who watches your program knows, Barbara loved life and living and participating, and she insisted, and I totally agreed that we live Christmas, and then there was a break, and then we lived her birthday. And this is going to be very difficult.

KING: So you had the dilemma of double gifts.

T. OLSON: Barbara didn't mind double, triple, quadruple gifts.

KING: No, but everyone who has those close December births...

T. OLSON: Yes.

KING: ... has to deal with that.

So Christmas was a big -- you had the tree. When did you exchange gifts?

T. OLSON: We exchanged -- and she wouldn't do it any other way, it had to be Christmas morning. And then two days later, it had to be her birthday morning. And there had to be lots of gifts. And I -- but I mean that in a nice way, because it was -- it didn't matter what was in those packages, but it was an expression of affection and appreciation and enthusiasm.

KING: We'll have more with Ted Olson on remembering Barbara right after this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PETER JENNINGS, ABC NEWS: And I said a short while ago that we'd only actually publicly identified one person, one individual who died today, and that was the wife of the solicitor general of the United States, Barbara Olson -- I've got her first name right, I think, Barbara Olson -- who was on the aircraft that attacked the Pentagon and was able to communicate with her husband, to whom we obviously extend our deepest -- just everybody who knows him must be thinking about his tragedy tonight. (END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BILL MAHER, HOST, "POLITICALLY INCORRECT," ABC: For those of you who were just joining us, I wanted to mention that that chair is empty all week, we announce this each night, for Barbara Olson, who was a favorite guest of ours and a friend. And she was supposed to be here last Tuesday night. She was on one of the planes. So we leave that open in tribute and a cherished memory for her.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, SEPTEMBER 11)

KING: His wife was Barbara Olson, who appeared on this program so many times in the last four weeks, almost every night. Barbara Olson was on American Air flight 77 that left Dulles bound for Los Angeles and crashed into the Pentagon.

I spoke to Ted Olson today briefly, and it was just sad, so sad to speak to someone who had just lost his wife.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We are here in the middle hour of our grief. So many have suffered so great a loss, and today we express our nation's sorrow. We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead and for those who loved them.

On Tuesday, our country was attacked with deliberate and massive cruelty. We have seen the images of fire and ashes and bent steel. Now come the names, the list of casualties we are only beginning to read. We will read all these names. We will linger over them and learn their stories, and many Americans will weep.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KING: On September 14, just three days after losing his wife, Barbara, in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Ted Olson sat down with us to try to make some sense out of what had happened. It was powerful and poignant. Watch.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE, SEPTEMBER 14)

KING: How did you and Barbara meet?

T. OLSON: I was at a think tank talking about something called RICO, Racketeering and Influence Corrupt Organizations Act. And Barbara was in the audience. I was up on a panel with a very dear friend of mine, Gordon Krovitz of "The Wall Street Journal" and Dow Jones Company. And Barbara asked Gordon to introduce the two of us. And...

KING: Ah, so she wanted to meet you.

T. OLSON: Well, I think -- that's the story she tells. Maybe Gordon did it on his own, but...

KING: Was it a very quick romance? Did you...

T. OLSON: Well, we didn't start dating for several weeks. We managed to see one another at a couple of Washington-type events, a conference of the Women Judges Association, we saw one another. She was a lawyer at another law firm. We met in October of 1989, and we started dating in about the spring of 1990. And of course it was an instant romance on my part, I believe hers too, well, I know hers too, because she...

KING: So you were together and committed for 11 years.

T. OLSON: Yes.

KING: I know you were at the memorial service this morning at the cathedral. What was that like for you?

T. OLSON: The service was extraordinarily moving. As you -- as your viewers must have seen, there were four former president plus the president there. I think just about everybody in the cabinet was there, and it was a beautifully moving -- and to see Reverend Graham speak and people spontaneously applauded him. He spoke from the heart, and so beautifully.

Denise Graves, who sang the two solos, is an unspeakably beautiful person with such an incredible voice. And "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," I think, breaks everybody up, but particular...

KING: Was it double...

T. OLSON: ... particularly under these circumstances.

KING: Was it a kind of double emotion for you?

T. OLSON: I don't know how I could get much more emotion. I mean, the -- in this kind of situation, you have -- every bit of emotion that you have is right at the surface. And it takes very little to bring it out. I don't suspect there were very many dry eyes in the cathedral, and mine certainly weren't. It was wonderful of the president and the people at the National Cathedral to hold that service on -- to support the many people who have been victimized by this awful...

KING: I...

T. OLSON: ... awful event.

KING: Now we're going to help our audience with some information. Let's go back to Tuesday morning. She was supposed to go Monday and stayed over? T. OLSON: She was supposed to go Monday, and she -- my birthday was Tuesday. And she decided that she was not going to go Monday. I told Barbara, I said, "That's OK, we'll deal with my birthday later on." At my age, we're not paying too much attention to those.

But she insisted. She did not want to be gone on the morning of my birthday, and she wanted to be there when I woke up, which she was. I left for work early, early, very early in the morning before 6:00, and she left shortly after that to go to the airport.

KING: So it was another -- it was a beautiful day, right, gorgeous day in Washington.

T. OLSON: It was a -- it turned out to be a -- the weather, at any rate, was -- it was a beautiful day in Washington. It was the next day as well.

KING: The next time you hear from her is on the plane, right? What happened?

T. OLSON: Actually, actually I heard from her before that, before she boarded the plane. This plane was scheduled to leave, and I guess did leave, at 8:10 in the morning. She called me -- we always did this with one another, we always called one another a lot during the day, sometimes very briefly. But she called me around -- it must have been around 7:30 or 7:40, before she got on the plane. We just talked about one another and how anxious I was for her to come back and how anxious for -- she was to return.

But then I did not hear from her again until after she was in the air.

KING: And the plane is now -- she's flying. She calls you. You're at the Justice Department, right, solicitor general's office is at the Justice.

T. OLSON: Yes.

KING: Right. She calls you, and what?

T. OLSON: Well, I had heard a few moments before, a few minutes before, of the disaster occurring at the World Trade Center. There's a television center in the back of my office. I turned it on and watched with horror the film being -- replaying the airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center...

KING: Both crashing.

T. OLSON: Both. The second one had just occurred, I think, when I had turned it on, but they were -- where they were all -- well, it occurred in such a fashion that they had film of it, which, as this station, and I think I was watching CNN, and I was relieved, because at the moment that I heard there was hijacked planes, I was both terrified and fearful for everything that was going on, but I made a mental calculation, because it -- the thing -- the first thing that comes into your mind is that Barbara's plane, could that be one of those planes?

And I thought, oh, thank goodness, it can't be her plane. I'm sounding rather selfish here, but that just went through my mind...

KING: Understandable.

T. OLSON: ... because there wasn't enough time for that airplane to have gotten to New York.

And then one of the secretaries rushed in and said, "Barbara's on the phone." And I jumped for the phone, so glad that -- to hear Barbara's voice. And then she told me, "Our plane has been hijacked." Now, this was sometime -- must have been 9:15 or 9:30, I don't -- someone would have to reconstruct the time for me.

KING: So the television's on, you're seeing the buildings, both in disaster mode, and you're talking to your wife, who's just been hijacked.

T. OLSON: Yes.

KING: And she says?

T. OLSON: She says, "We've just been hijacked." I had two conversations, Larry, and I'm -- my memory is -- has -- tends to mix the two of them up because of the emotion of the events. We spoke for a minute or two, then the phone was cut off. Then we spoke -- then she got through again, and we spoke for another two or three or four minutes. She told me that the plane had hijacked, that she had been -- she told me that they did -- they did not know she was making this phone call.

She told me that she had been herded to the back of the plane. She mentioned that they had used knives and box-cutters to hijack the plane. She mentioned that the pilot had announced that the plane had been hijacked. I believe she said that. And she -- I had to tell her about the two airplanes that had hit the World Trade Center.

KING: Why?

T. OLSON: I just felt that I had to. I had to tell her. I'll look back at that and wonder that -- about that same question myself, but I had to tell her.

KING: What did she say when you told her?

T. OLSON: She -- she -- I think she must have been partially in, in, in shock from the fact that she was on a hijacked plane. She absorbed the information. We then both reassured one another, this plane was still up in the air, this plane was still flying. And this was going to come out OK. I told her it's going to come out OK. She told me it was going to come out OK. She said, "I love you... "

KING: Didn't she ask about the pilot...

T. OLSON: She asked -- she said... KING: ... was the pilot in the back with her then?

T. OLSON: I don't know. But she told me at one point in this conversation, "What shall I tell the pilot? What, what, what, what, what can I tell the pilot to do?"

KING: Implying that he must have been back there with her.

T. OLSON: Either the pilot, or possibly the co-pilot, or a part of the crew. That was the implication, but I didn't really think to ask that specific question.

KING: Did she sound terrified, anxious, nervous, scared?

T. OLSON: No, she didn't. She sounded very, very calm.

KING: Typical Barbara.

T. OLSON: In retrospect, enormously, remarkably, incredibly calm. But she was calculating. I mean, she was wondering, What can I do to help solve this problem? Barbara was like that. Barbara could not have not done something. And so...

KING: And what's going through you?

T. OLSON: Oh, my, my -- I am in -- I guess I'm in shock and I'm horrified, because I really -- well, I reassured her that I thought everything was going to be OK, I was pretty sure everything was not going to be OK. I by this time had made the calculation that these were suicide persons bent on destroying as much of America as they could, and...

KING: Did you hear other noises on the plane?

T. OLSON: No, I did not. At one point, when she asked me what to say to the pilot, I asked her if she had any sense for where she was. I had after the first conversation called our command center at the Department of Justice to alert them to the fact that there was another hijacked plane and that my wife was on it and that she was capable of communicating, even though this first phone call had been cut off.

So I wanted to find out where the plane was. She said the plane had been hijacked shortly after takeoff, and they had been circling around, I think the words that she used. She reported to me that she could see houses. I asked her which direction the plane was going. She paused. There was a pause there. I think she must have asked someone else. And she said, "I think it's going northeast."

KING: Which would have been toward the Pentagon, right?

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T. OLSON: Dulles is west of the Pentagon.

KING: Right, yes. T. OLSON: And so east of the -- of Dulles is the Pentagon, and depending -- this plane had been in the air for, I think, over an hour. So I don't know where she was when she called. But that couldn't...

KING: So this didn't do any direct flight right to the Pentagon?

T. OLSON: No. No, her plane took off at 8:10, and the -- its impact with the Pentagon must have been around 9:30 or so. I mean, you'll probably be able to reconstruct that or have that information. As to the...

KING: Was -- how does the second -- how does the second conversation end?

T. OLSON: We are -- we, we segued back and forth between expressions of feeling for one another, and this effort to exchange information. And then the phone went dead. I don't know whether it just got cut off again, because the signals from cell phones coming from airplanes aren't -- don't work that well, or whether that was the impact with the Pentagon. It was not -- I stayed glued to my television. I did call the command center again. Someone came down, so I could impart this information, and also to be there in case she called again.

But it was very shortly thereafter that news reports on the television indicated that there had been an explosion of some sort at the Pentagon...

KING: Did you immediately know then that's what it was?

T. OLSON: I did. I mean, I didn't want to...

KING: But you did.

T. OLSON: ... I did, and I didn't want to, and I -- and -- but I knew. It was -- the -- but it was a long time before what had happened at the Pentagon, or it seemed like a long time, before it was identified as an airplane. And then the first report that I heard was that it was a commuter plane, and then I heard it was an American Airlines plane.

I called some people, I guess maybe just because I had to share the dread that was living with me. I called my mother and I called my son. I said I didn't think -- I thought that -- I was hoping that it wasn't true, but I was very worried. I did not want them to see something on television and hear her name.

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REV. BILLY GRAHAM: This has been a terrible week with many tears, but also it's been a week of great faith. Churches all across the country have called prayer meetings. And today is a day that they're celebrating not only in this country but in many parts of the world. My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Many poems can be written about love, but this surpasses them all. We can only imagine what went through Ted's mind as his wife talked with him, especially since he was aware of the attacks in New York. Ted might tell us what he thought, and he did so on the TV interviews. But there's no way he could convey to us what he felt and what anguish and anxiety was piercing his heart.

His wife was about to die, and there was absolutely nothing he could do. He was absolutely powerless. He was solicitor general of the United States, and he could do nothing for the woman he loved.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Barbara and Ted are as one in our lives, two hearts beating as one. They are inseparable. Even those final minutes of crisis and finality could not separate them, nor will death do so, for Barbara's spirit survives in each of us, just as the spirit of our great country lives on.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yet these many accomplishments were merely the outward manifestations of an extraordinary spirit and soul. To those of us who knew Barbara Olson well, that inner essence was one of vitality, courage, loyalty to friends and principles, and a talent, or rather a genius, for friendship.

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KING: In the immediate aftermath of Barbara Olson's death, Ted Olson became a point man for the administration's effort to pass sweeping antiterrorism legislation. He talked about that and a lot more when he joined us on October 24.

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KING: Antiterrorism legislation passed the House today, 357 to 66. There was a compromise to it. You fought hard for this bill. I have no memory of a solicitor general getting involved in promoting legislation.

T. OLSON: Well, it has happened before, but it's been a long time. I think these are special circumstances. I felt that it was necessary for me and for Barbara and for the other victims on September 11 that I say what I could, because I think people identified with Barbara and I am a part of the administration.

And I have some expertise on this kind of legislation and the issues that are involved, the civil libertarian issues and so forth. These are very modest steps. They aren't the end of the line. These are things that have to be done to give us -- to plus up loopholes that exist in our federal legislation so that terrorists can't get away with the things that they did on September 11. We owe it. We -- every single one of us in this country owe it to the people who gave their lives on September 11 to do everything we possibly can, first against the people who did it and to prevent this from ever happening again.

KING: As a person sworn to uphold the constitution, does anything in this give you any pause as to its civil libertarian aspect?

T. OLSON: No, Larry. In fact, I spent a lot of time looking at this. This legislation, most of which has already been tested in courts with respect to drug dealers and organized crime figures, does not surrender any liberties that allows us to do the things that we ought to be able to do, and we should be able to do, had our legislation kept track with modern technology.

So I'm comfortable that this is not an invasion of our civil liberties. I want to tell the American people that if it was, I would be as concerned about it as other people would be. It is not. It is something that is necessary for us to prevent terrorists that take advantage of the liberties that we give our citizens.

KING: In other words, tough times?

T. OLSON: It's tough times, but it's also a very important, Larry, for us to understand that we've been threatened before. We are a strong country. We are a strong people. We believe in ourselves. We believe in our leadership. And we must live our lives as normally as we possibly can. We must be careful, but we must not give in to the fact that there have been threats to us. We cannot give in to the fear that these people hope to induce in us. We must enjoy our lives. We must live our lives as close to as we can to a normal way. And I believe in that.

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T. OLSON: Three long months ago, our nation and our people were savagely attacked. Thousands of our citizens were murdered. Many suffered painful and disfiguring injuries. And tens of thousands lost spouses, children, parents, other family members, neighbors, co- workers, and friends.

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KING: The Solicitor General of the United States Ted Olson lost his wife on American Airlines 77. She was a frequent guest on this show. What do you think of that? Did you know Barbara.

LAURA BUSH, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, I think it's very, very sad. I didn't really know Barbara. I know him, of course. I've met him, but I didn't really know her. She and I corresponded a couple of times, but that's sad.

KING: He's held up very well.

BUSH: He has, I think, I understand that he has.

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KING: Welcome back. More now of our December 17 interview with Ted Olson. The holiday season can be very, very hard for those who have lost loved ones. But sometimes, sharing memories can help.

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KING: Did Barbara Olson make New Year's resolutions?

T. OLSON: No, I don't think -- if she did, we never talked about it very much. We approached New Year's eve as a nice time to be together, but not a big party time not...

KING: You didn't go through all the family?

T. OLSON: No, no, we basically, we -- that's when amateurs party on New Year's Eve. We partied every single other day of our life. And what we liked to do on New Year's Eve, we had some very close friends over. And we would eat some very good food and drink some very good wine.

Our favorite couple to have over is Bob and Mary Ellen Bork, Judge Bork. We treasured those times together. This year, we were going to go to California with the Borks, but we made less of a party out of New Year's Eve than other people do, mainly because we spent so much time enjoying ourselves at other times.

KING: Let's talk about that. You were very -- this was your third marriage, right?

T. OLSON: Yes.

KING: Barbara's second?

T. OLSON: Yes.

KING: You were a very romantic couple, right? I mean, you were affectionate with each other. Having dined at your house, I know that to be true. You liked each other, in addition to loving each other?

T. OLSON: Yes, that's absolutely true. I think we both felt, I certainly did, that this was the best thing that ever happened to me. We were extremely close. We liked to go out to dinner together. We liked to be at home together. We liked to talk to one another. We liked to do everything together. And we weren't bashful about the fact that we were very much in love. And we didn't express it in embarrassing ways, but I think everybody knew how much I loved and respected her, and the feelings that we had for one another.

KING: How about all the lives she touched?

T. OLSON: Well, she touched lives in so many ways. It was really unbelievable. I think I've told people, and people that have watched your program, and have read her books, know that she was a ballet dancer. She was a Hollywood producer. She was -- she touched people at the Jewish Law School that she went to, after the Catholic college that she went to. She was very successful prosecutor, federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. And she was the best dressed prosecutor, I think, that ever seen bright colors, big...

KING: L.A. dressed in Washington, right?

T. OLSON: She liked colors. It was not just L.A>, it was Barbara. She loved people. She loved the people that she worked with. She was a congressional investigator. And she was a wrote two books in her life. And both were New York Times best-selling books.

KING: And she liked being known, didn't she?

T. OLSON: Yes, she loved being known. She liked being recognized. I think some of us -- I don't known how you feel about that, but some of us feel maybe we'd like to be a little bit more anonymous from time to time. Barbara would sweep into a room and she captivated people, but she was thrilled that people knew who she was. And again in a very nice way. It wasn't that she craved attention so much, as that she liked to be a participant and she liked people to know that she was.

KING: What are you hearing from people?

T. OLSON: Oh, I'm hearing such wonderful things about Barbara. I'm hearing such wonderful stories about Barbara. Of course, I knew a lot of stories, but there's a lot of stories out there that I didn't know. So many of your viewers have written me. They're such sweet people that they knew Barbara because of watching LARRY KING LIVE. And they liked her smile, they liked the fact that she could participate in debate and have fun. You remember this, she had an opinion on every subject, you said that once.

KING: Every subject known to man.

T. OLSON: Yes, and she was proud of the fact that she had opinions. And she was proud of the fact that she expressed them. And everyone that she ever appeared on, that I've talked to, every person who appeared opposite her, opposite points of view, liked Barbara and appreciated Barbara because she enjoyed the -- the debate and the fun of it. And she liked the people that she was debating.

KING: But even people who didn't agree with her felt an attachment to her? T. OLSON: I can't tell you how many of your viewers have said I didn't agree with a single opinion, but I liked to watch her. And the people that debated with her on your program, and on other programs liked her.

KING: Yes.

T. OLSON: Maybe that's not true for everybody, but...

KING: But she had a quality. Maybe not taking herself too seriously. In other words, she could argue with someone and then you go to a commercial break. Then she'd talk about a completely different subject. Having dinner together or certainly her ability to laugh at herself as well. What would surprise people about Barbara?

T. OLSON: I don't know what would surprise people about Barbara.

KING: Was she what you saw what you got? In other words if people watching now -- what would there be anything about Barbara that they wouldn't know?

T. OLSON: Well, there's lots of things, because she was there was a mystery or a surprise every day because she was extremely spontaneous. She was a great cook. She was great dancer. She was a designer. She could design our home. You've seen our home. It's a beautiful home.

KING: Yes, that's new.

T. OLSON: She did this. She was a prosecutor. She was a writer. Everything that she did she approached with complete zest and zeal and appreciation for the love of living.

KING: Don't you think she was on her way to having her own show?

T. OLSON: I don't know.

KING: Yes, you would think?

T. OLSON: I would think that she was a natural for that. And I think that that could obviously be the case, because people liked to see her. People liked -- you've heard from people and I've heard from people. They liked her when she was on your show. And they liked her when she was on other shows because they liked to be -- they liked to have her in their living room.

Young girls, older women saw her as a role model. They saw her as someone who stood for the proposition that you can be whatever you want you to be, if you can go for it. Try. You can't get anywhere as you know, can't get anywhere unless you do it.

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KING: Some more moments with Ted Olson on this tribute to Barbara right after this.

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BARBARA OLSON, WIFE OF TED OLSON: If you're a prosecutor, and you're charged with investigating crimes, no matter what the public says, rightfully or wrongfully, you go forward based upon the evidence.

I think what is happening right now are people deciding what kind country we have. What kind of more fiber we have in this country, and do we really mind that the President of the United States has less moral standards than we demand of our own family members?

Hillary Clinton has captured people's attention. I mean, the people want to know who she really, and what she's really going to do.

Can you imagine if someone was just missing in your neighborhood. You would be concerned and want to help, much less someone that you actually had a relationship with and that you were close to.

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DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Tomorrow at this conference, our solicitor general will inaugurate an annual lecture named for his wife. Barbara Olson will always be remembered for her sharp mind, for her kindness, for her cheerful presence. It's hard think of Barbara and not see her smiling. And we miss her. And we will always remember the grace and the courage of Ted Olson from that day to this.

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KING: We're back with Ted Olson. There are a lot of things Washington is famous for. Style ain't one of them. This is not -- I mean, we're not France or L.A. or New York in Washington, but she went against that, didn't she? I mean she dressed to the nines. That was Barbara?

T. OLSON: She liked beautiful, colorful clothes. She liked these four inch, I guess four-inch heels. People could wonder how she could wear these heels all day long. But yes, it was style, and verve, and class.

When she would walk into a courtroom as a prosecutor, the jurors and defendants wouldn't necessarily always be in the right same side as Barbara, but they wound up loving her because she would enter a room and would flip her hair. And she was yes, her -- what she wore and her smile and her hair, and everything was a statement about Barbara. It was a happy statement, but it was a statement that I'm here, I'm alive, I'm enjoying the bright colorful things.

Yes, she wore beautiful clothes. And she looked so great in clothes. She appreciated it. And it was a part of her. All of these things were a part of Barbara, this explosion into the moment, you know.

And she loved being on your show. She just -- whatever the subject was, she want to be on your show, because she liked being here. You've got a wonderful show. She was thrilled. Your producers -- she loved your producers. I have to say that. And what do you here is very spontaneous. It's not very canned. I mean, you can -- and you like lots of views. And you like your viewers to see lots of opinions. And she just loved that.

KING: How do you think she'd like to be remembered?

T. OLSON: I think that she would be very happy to be remembered as someone who lived the notion that you can be whatever you want to be. When I like to talk about the fact that when Barbara went to Hollywood, she just went there to raise money go to law school. She didn't know anything about it. She managed to get a job.

And the first person who hired her, Stacy Keach, I talked to. He's great and great producer, and so forth. And he confronted her six months later and said, "You didn't you know anything about this business when you came to work for me, did you?" And she said, "Well, I didn't, but I know I'm a fast learner."

And she was a fast learner. She, I think, would like to be remembered as standing for the idea that you should participate, that you should love what you're doing, you should allow yourself to have no limits, that you should try to reach the sky. And she did in so many ways.

KING: She was a feminist without being one, right?

T. OLSON: She was living, breathing example of what she felt about feminism, which is don't complain, do it. Get out there and do it. You can do it. And that's why I've gotten so many letters from young women, middle-aged women, older women saying Barbara taught us that we can do anything that we want to do. We just have to believe in ourselves.

And Barbara believed in herself. And she felt -- I think she would like to be remembered as someone who set the standard that you can do these things if you want to do these things. Try it. Don't be afraid to try.

KING: And keeping her memory alive, are you enjoying the fact that all these magazines are referring to her when they talk about losses this year, and articles about her everywhere, best-selling book -- posthumously best-selling.

T. OLSON: Well, I'm -- I think what I enjoy -- I have mixed feelings about all of those things, as I think anybody would. What I like is that there are people all over this country that are buying her book. I think that it's a good book and they like the book, but I think what's really happening is people saying, "I want to touch her. I want to remember those people that died on September 11. And she's the one I remembered because she's the picture I saw on television first."

So many people have said that's what hit me, I saw Barbara Olson there. So they're reaching out. Not just to Barbara. They're identifying with Barbara. They're reaching out to Barbara and they're reach out to the other thousands of victims on September 11 by saying what else -- how else can I reach through? I'm going to buy Barbara's book. She died that day. And I think that's what a lot of people out there are doing. I'm very touched by that and I know she would be.

KING: Ted, you flew American Airlines to go to Chicago and then go to Green Bay and then on to upper part of Wisconsin for the special burial and the like. Was that hard to get on the American Airline plane?

T. OLSON: Well, it wasn't easy, but again, that's part of the same thing. I mean, we go -- airplanes are safe. And airplanes fly. And these, you know, you've got to get over these things.

All of these things, going back to work, going home, going to places where Barbara and I had very special times together, you have to do that. Barbara had a very passionate belief in life. And so the choice is you continue to believe the things that both of us believed in and live out your life and enjoy it and participate at the fullest extent that you possibly can or go off in corner someplace and wither up. And I'm not going to go off in a corner and wither up. And Barbara wouldn't have either. So that means flying airplanes, yes.

KING: So it wasn't queasy or anything to?

T. OLSON: No, that was okay.

KING: I don't imagine you would fly the morning plane to Los Angeles?

T. OLSON: Yes, I would. I would.

KING: You would?

T. OLSON: Yes.

KING: The one that leaves at 8:15, the one that you and I took?

T. OLSON: Yes.

KING: The one that she took?

T. OLSON: The one that you and I took the day of the -- day after the election and 2000.

KING: When they called you?

T. OLSON: Yes, I do believe that you have to do this. You can't you can't allow that sort of thing to swallow you up.

KING: Thank you, Ted. T. OLSON: Thank you.

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KING: The Solicitor General of the United States Ted Olson. Barbara Olson lives on in our hearts. She was some lady and a wonderful friend to his show. When we return, a moving rendition of a holiday classic performed by Manheim Steamroller.

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NANCY GRACE, COURT TV ANCHOR: We all became a little family over the airwaves. And how much fun and how angry we all got together over every legal issue?

MARK GERAGOS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: It's been three years, I guess, since she and I started that kind of frick and frack of the right and left. And I developed a real affection for her, as you know.

KING: And she for you.

CYNTHIA ALKSNE, FORMER PROSECUTOR: You know, I knew mostly about her from our TV appearances. She was an accomplished ballet dancer. And I learned that at her funeral. She loved country music and I learned that at her funeral. And she had a yellow convertible as a kid, and I learned it at her funeral. And I felt such sadness, if my missed opportunity, which can only be a billion fold for her family and close friends.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a spectacular love story. She his princess. He, her prince.

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KING: Thanks for watching this encore of our tribute to Barbara Olson. The show originally aired Christmas night. We closed then, as we will now, with a true holiday classic. Here's "Silent Night" performed by Manheim Steamroller. It's from the boxed set "Manheim Steamroller: Christmas Collection." Good night.

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        Olson Book's Chilling Warning: Clinton's Terrorist Pardons Sent Signal

            NewsMax.com

            Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001 9:09 p.m. EDT

            In a bone-chilling chapter of her new book "The Final Days," late heroine-author Barbara Olson warned that ex-president Bill Clinton's pardons of terrorists who had repeatedly bombed buildings in New York City "send a signal" that the U.S. isn't serious about fighting terrorism.

            In words that now seem like a harbinger of her own Sept. 11 death at the hands of the Middle Eastern terrorists, Olson cited example after example of how U.S. officials strenuously warned Clinton that pardoning FALN Puerto Rican separatists who had waged their own bombing jihad on America posed a threat to national security.

            In August 1999 Clinton pardoned 16 FALN terrorists without even being asked, in a move that was widely seen as a cynical ploy to win Hispanic votes for his wife's New York Senate bid.

            The group had planned and executed 130 bombing attacks on New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., from 1974 to 1983. Miraculously, the FALN managed to kill just six Americans. But hundreds more were seriously wounded.

            Law enforcement officials were stunned when Clinton decided to pardon the FALN bombers.

            "The FBI's assistant director of national security, Neil Gallagher, said that the people turned loose by Clinton 'are criminals, and they are terrorists, and they represent a threat to the United States,'" Olson wrote.

            In a subchapter eerily headlined "Pardons for Terrorists Send a Signal," she reported:

            "President Clinton had not bothered to consult with relatives of victims of FALN terrorism. In fact, the survivors of those murdered and those whose lives had otherwise been destroyed by the terrorists were not even informed that their attackers were being released."

            Olson continued:

            "Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder ... conceded that the nation owed much greater consideration to the victims. And Holder's boss, Janet Reno, explicitly acknowledged that groups aligned with the FALN still posed a threat to national security."

            In comments turned gut-wrenching in light of last month's attacks, former Justice Department pardon attorney Margaret Love told the late author that Clinton's terrorist pardons should have set off alarm bells.

            "We should have seen a big flashing red light because of the FALN cases. ... That was a foreshoadowing of what happened later."

            Love was referring to Clinton's January 2001 pardons of drug dealers and international fugitives, not the attacks on the U.S., which no one foresaw. But it's nearly impossible now to read those words as anything but prophecy of the terrorist acts that murdered Olson and nearly 6,000 others last month.

            In a moment of now legendary heroism, the late author telephoned her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, from American Flight 175 to warn that terrorists had hijacked her plane. Mr. Olson had the terrible task of telling his wife that two planes had slammed into New York's World Trade Center minutes before.

            Barbara Olson's phone call was the first warning the government had that Washington, D.C., had come under similar attack.

            In comments sure to irk those who argued for eight years that Bill Clinton's private life was nobody else's business, the late author contends that the terrorist pardons were payback for Mrs. Clinton indulging her husband's decades of rampant philandering.

            "Hillary had done a lot of heavy lifting for her husband, much of it, such as the various bimbo eruptions, that required her to hold her nose. She had to cover for her husband and lie."

            Olson called the FALN pardons Bill Clinton's "first return on her investment."

            Though a lively debate has raged ever since Sept. 11 over whether the ex-president did as much as he could to stop Osama bin Laden, the one-time congressional Clinton investigator is the first to raise the FALN pardon question at any length.

            Perhaps now Sen. Clinton, who has made herself newly available on the TV talk show circuit since the World Trade Center attacks, will be asked whether she agrees with Olson that her husband's terrorist pardons "sent a signal."

[trixi1]

Blackout in the MSM. I can't locate on CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, and any other alphabet network.

Wait and watch. Post anything relevant if you find it.

[trixi1]

http://pilotsfor911truth.org/amrarticle.html

This is a very lengthy but informative article/essay on the fact that they question if American Airlines Flight 77 had phones onboard.

Well worth the read.

[Dig]

Every single solitady piece of "evidence" that the 9/11 lie is based on is coming out from the shadows!

[trixi1]

Down with their glass house of cards!

[NotASheep]

Thanks for the info on the book "The Shell Game" - anyone here read it yet?  If so, comments?

Article above has been"dugg"!

[Susan Graham]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_bill_dou_080219_breaking_9_2f11_news_3a_.htm

February 20, 2008 at 13:53:26

BREAKING 9/11 NEWS: FBI Says Barbara Olsen Did Not Call Ted Olsen. Bush Solicitor General LIED !!

by Bill Douglas
         
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Nationally syndicated talk show host Charles Goyette uncovered blockbuster information in his drive-time interview with author David Ray Griffin.

A center piece of the increasingly apparent BULLSH*T story our government and corporate media have fed us for six long years was a complete fabrication!

We were fed a lie by Ted Olsen who served as Solictor General for the Bush Administration, when on 9/11 he held a press conference to tell America and the world that his dead wife had called him before her demise from the jet she was on that had just been hijacked.

Personally, I thought it was odd at the time that a man would decide to hold a press conference minutes after hearing of his own wife’s death, when it happened on 9/11.  If my own wife had just died, the last thing I’d want to do would be to talk to anyone, let alone call a press conference.  It didn’t “smell” right.

Now we know why it didn’t smell right.  It was a lie.  The FBI has reported that no such call between Barbara Olsen and Ted Olsen ever took place on 9/11/2001.

It was part of the rapidly unraveling scam that is the official story of 9/11.

In fact, Griffin went on to explain that there is zero evidence that any hijackers had commandeered a plane at all.  True Bush believers will say, whao, wait a minute, we all know they did.  How do you know?  Because Bush told you.

But, as Griffin rightly points out, in this interview, there is no “EVIDENCE” of their existence.

Which also reveals that mis-information shill, Popular Mechanics, in their 9/11 interview on the Charles Goyette Show months ago, lied when they told us there was DNA evidence of the so-called Muslim hijackers.  LIES, all lies.

Find links to the entire interviews of February 19, 2008, at:
http://www.911blogger.com/node/13946
 
When will corporate media stop their participation in a criminal cover up?  If the former Solicitor General lying to America by creating a complete fabrication he spread around the world through corporate media, is not a story worthy of CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, Democracy Now, The Nation, Rolling Stone, PBS, NPR, and all the other fourth estate . . . then they have no right to refer to themselves as media.

They should forever in the future refer to themselves as “The Propaganda Ministry.”

So, how can we break through the hijacking of our media in America?  How can we get the mass culture to be exposed to hard questions around 9/11?

We must use guerilla tactics, and take opportunities when they come.

On January 22nd, 2008, a New York Times best selling novelist, put his career on the line to write an explosive new edu-tainment book called “The Shell Game.”

Since that has happened he’s been attacked, his personal emails have been publicized, his home address, a google map to his home, his phone number and other personal information has been posted on the internet.

Media that had interviewed him on all his other books have shunned him.  The big publishing houses that would have published his normal thrillers closed their doors to “The Shell Game,” and major book publicizing events he’d been invited to in the past, have mysteriously cancelled his speaking engagements.

In spite of that in the 2nd week of “The Shell Game”s release, it rose to #31 on the New York Times best seller list.  A growing army of Americans hungry to create a mass demand for a new 9/11 investigation have come to support the success of “The Shell Game.”

Why?  Within the pages of “The Shell Game” real 9/11 research is exposed.  The Shell Game’s website www.TheShellGame.net has links to most major 9/11 truth websites.

Author, Steve Alten, has hitched his explosive novel to be coupled with David Ray Griffin’s upcoming non-fiction book, in order to give it more exposure faster.

Anyone who wants to create a mass demand for 9/11 truth and a new investigation, should do everything in their power to promote “The Shell Game,” in every way they can think of doing.  At www.TheShellGame.net they’ll find to powerful 90 second video trailers that warn the public of false flag terror strikes by an American President to fool us into war with Iran.

Last week, both Bush and Chertoff warned we’d see a devastating attack on America soon.  “The Shell Game” warns of just such an event.  To get the most massive number of Americans reading such a book, will make it VERY difficult for Bush/Chertoff to realize their dream of another false flag attack on America.

SPREAD THE WORD, WIDE, FAR AND FAST – WWW.THESHELLGAME.NET

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[hal 9000]

Just to play devil's advocate, could there be a more benign explanation for why the FBI says it has no evidence for a Barbera Olson call from flight 77? Could Ted Olson being telling the truth, in that he received a call from someone claiming to be his wife, an imposter impersonating her using some type of voice morphing technology? But if that was the case, wouldn't a record of the call still appear on Ted Olson'e phone records? Could the FBI actually have the records of the call, but somehow managed to lose track of them, losing them in the huge morass of 9/11 related evidence? Highly unlikely, if not impossible. I do not believe the bureau would lose track of such vital evidence in this case. If she did in fact make that call, it would be a cinch for the FBI to obtain the records of the call. Personally I believe Ted Olson is lying through his teeth, and never received any call, either from his wife or an imposter. The man needs to be questioned under oath. Lots of people in this case need to be questioned under oath. That is why there must be a new investigation of this crime, and not a day too soon. And I'm talking about a real investigation, not a show investigation biased toward the official story. All the evidence must be followed to where ever it may lead. The full horror of what really happened must be revealed to the world in all it's ugliness.

[geetardiva]

I'm one of the peeps who is still up in the air about if those planes even hit the WTC.   I still want to see some evidence of the plane wreckage. 

With that said, I have to wonder if Babs is in Dubai at the black jack tables these days.

Seriously, I don't believe any of the 9-11 "official" story.   

I think the magnitude of the deceit is nothing short of huge.

[SuzakaDusk]

According to Wikipedia.

Death
Olson was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 on her way to a taping of Politically Incorrect in Los Angeles (host Bill Maher left a panel seat vacant during the first week the show aired after the attacks), when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attacks. (She had been scheduled to take an earlier flight, but switched to that Flight 77 on that Tuesday, her husband's 61st birthday, in order to celebrate over dinner the night before.) She twice called her husband, then U.S. Solicitor General, from one of the phones in a passenger's seat, about 20 minutes before the plane hit the Pentagon, asking him "What can I do?"[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Olson

Think someone can edit it

[zdux0012]

Which phone call ?
Isn't that the call that came over the cellular phone, I mean airplane phone,, no wait I mean cell phone.  That's right cell phone.



To: No planes theorists and geetardiva -
Don't be stupid. People saw the planes hit the WTC buildings, just because you weren't one of them doesn't mean it's not true.
Btw, We are all robots. We are tricking you by pretending to be humans. Actually we are studying about 10 different humans on this planet called "f290FQJ##!!!", congratulations you are 1 of the  lucky 10! Please don't tell anyone else.

[geetardiva]

<<To: No planes theorists and geetardiva -
Don't be stupid. People saw the planes hit the WTC buildings, just because you weren't one of them doesn't mean it's not true.
>>

Chill out Zdux, and please don't tell me what to believe.   

We have enough fascists trying to tell us what to believe in this country.   

You believe differently. 

That's great.  That's what makes the world go around.   

The point is September 11th was a false flag, however it happened and whatever happened.

Period.

[trixi1]

<<To: No planes theorists and geetardiva -
Don't be stupid. People saw the planes hit the WTC buildings, just because you weren't one of them doesn't mean it's not true.
>>

Chill out Zdux, and please don't tell me what to believe.   

We have enough fascists trying to tell us what to believe in this country.   

You believe differently. 

That's great.  That's what makes the world go around.   

The point is September 11th was a false flag, however it happened and whatever happened.

Period.

I think that sarcasm was intended by Zdux's quotes. If not, then I agree with your post geetardiva.

[Redbird]

When the u tubes of sec. of treasury, Paulson were going around, Alex said they did they same thing about Barbara Olsen. I bet Alex knows.

They were saying Paulson was dead.

[KiwiClare]

This is really big news!  I am very pleased, as I think a lot of people hang onto the idea that the phone calls that were reputedly made from the reputedly hijacked planes on 9/11 were real. They regarded that information as somehow "factual." I encountered such a person today.
This is an important one to paste elsewhere I think, because of this and also because the sentiments expressed by the author mirror the reality that we have come to know so well also.

[la Resistance]

Her husband sacrificed her for his own disgusting gains. Then he puts on a show for everyone pretending how broken up he is losing her. What a piece of filth.

If that's the case, then Ted Olsen would have to be a supremely evil man.

He certainly seems to endorse all the criminals.

[KiwiClare]

Ted Olson's Report of Phone Calls from Barbara Olson on 9/11: Three Official Denials
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8514
Global Research, April 1, 2008
by David Ray Griffin

[trixi1]

Thanks for posting that one KiwiClare. You beat me, lol. Anyway, more truth from many sources. 

[Mr Grinch]

Thanks for posting that one KiwiClare. You beat me, lol. Anyway, more truth from many sources. 

Ditto, and for the lazy...

Conclusion

This rejection of Ted Olson’s story by American Airlines, the Pentagon, and especially the FBI is a development of utmost importance. Without the alleged calls from Barbara Olson, there is no evidence that Flight 77 returned to Washington. Also, if Ted Olson’s claim was false, then there are only two possibilities: Either he lied or he was duped by someone using voice-morphing technology to pretend to be his wife.17 In either case, the official story about the calls from Barbara Olson was based on deception. And if that part of the official account of 9/11 was based on deception, should we not suspect that other parts were as well?

      The fact that Ted Olson’s report has been contradicted by other defenders of the official story about 9/11 provides grounds for demanding a new investigation of 9/11. This internal contradiction is, moreover, only one of 25 such contradictions discussed in my most recent book, 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press.

NOTES


1 This essay is based on Chapter 8 (“Did Ted Olson Receive Calls from Barbara Olson?”) of David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press (Northampton: Olive Branch, 2008).

2 Tim O’Brien, “Wife of Solicitor General Alerted Him of Hijacking from Plane,” CNN, September 11, 2001 (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/pentagon.olson).

3 This was pointed out in The 9/11 Commission Report, 8.

4 Hannity & Colmes, Fox News, September 14, 2001 (http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/foxnews091401.html).

5 “America’s New War: Recovering from Tragedy,” Larry King Live, CNN, September 14, 2001 (http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/14/lkl.00.html).

6 In his “Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture,” delivered November 16, 2001
(http://www.fed-soc.org/resources/id.63/default.asp),
Olson said that she “somehow managed . . . to use a telephone in the airplane to call.” He laid out this version of his story more fully in an interview reported in Toby Harnden, “She Asked Me How to Stop the Plane,” Daily Telegraph, March 5, 2002 (http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/telegraph030502.html).

7 I discussed the technical difficulties of making cell phone calls from airliners in 2001 in Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory (Northampton: Olive Branch, 2007), 87-88, 292-97.

8 See the submission of 17 February 2006 by “the Paradroid” on the Politik Forum (http://forum.politik.de/forum/archive/index.php/t-133356-p-24.html). It is quoted in David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press (Northampton: Olive Branch, 2008), 75.

9 United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui, Exhibit Number P200054 (http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/flights/P200054.html). These documents can be more easily viewed in “Detailed Account of Phone Calls from September 11th Flights”
(http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/evidence/calldetail.html).

10 FBI, “Interview with Theodore Olsen [sic],” “9/11 Commission, FBI Source Documents, Chronological, September 11,” 2001Intelfiles.com, March 14, 2008,
(http://intelfiles.egoplex.com:80/2008/03/911-commission-fbi-source-documents.html).

11 Alfred Goldberg et al., Pentagon 9/11 (Washington DC: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2007).

12 O’Brien, “Wife of Solicitor General Alerted Him of Hijacking from Plane.”

13 9/11 Commission Staff Statement 16
(http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/staff_statement_16.pdf).

14 Shoestring, “The Flight 77 Murder Mystery: Who Really Killed Charles Burlingame?” Shoestring911, February 2, 2008 (http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2008/02/flight-77-murder-mystery-who-really.html).

15 “In Memoriam: Charles ‘Chic’ Burlingame, 1949-2001,” USS Saratoga Museum foundation (available at http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/planes/analysis/chic_remembered.html).

16 Alfred Goldberg et al., Pentagon 9/11 (Washington DC: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2007), 12.

17 Of these two possibilities, the idea that Ted Olson was duped should be seriously entertained only if there are records proving that the Department of Justice received two collect calls, ostensibly from Barbara Olson, that morning. Evidently no such records have been produced.

 
This article is based on Chapter 8 of Dr. Griffin's new book, "9/11 Contradictions:  An Open Letter to Congress and the Press," (Northampton: Olive Branch, 2008).
 
This book reframes the central events of 9/11 as a series of 25 internal contradictions.  The only way that its readers will be able to continue to accept the official story is to accept mutually contradictory accounts.