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.

-based law firm of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering where Barbara Olson did civil litigation for several years before becoming an Assistant U. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. S.

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.