Barbara Olson, R.I.P.
Mourning the loss of a contributor, adviser, and friend. R.I.P.

By NR Editors, from “The Week”
October 1, 2001, issue

mong the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on America was a friend of NR: Barbara Olson, a lawyer and author who was on the plane that was crashed into the Pentagon. Nobody on the airwaves was a more intelligent or knowledgeable critic of the Clintons. She learned about them earlier than most, when she served as an indefatigable investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform. Later, she wrote a best-selling book on Mrs. Clinton called Hell to Pay. But where other students of Clintonite wrongdoing fell into weariness or apoplexy, Olson managed to keep a lively sense of humor. In her last moments, she reportedly used her cell phone to call her husband, solicitor general Ted Olson, seeking to foil the hijackers' plot — an action entirely in keeping with her character. We offer condolences to her family, and mourn the loss of a contributor, adviser, and friend. R.I.P.