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The CIA’s Murder of Frank Olson Goes to Court

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Yesterday, the New York Times carried a fascinating article entitled "Suit Planned Over Death of Man C.I.A. Drugged." According to the article, the children of a former federal official named Frank Olson are suing the CIA for murdering their father in 1953 as part of the agency’s infamous MKULTRA program. The article is of special interest to me because I wrote about the Olson case in the August issue of our monthly journal Future of Freedom, in my article, “The Evil of the National Security State, Part 5.” (Part 5 is not yet posted online but is available to subscribers now. Subscribe here.) Part 5 revolves around the book A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments

We Are Psyched About Our Tour!

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Our second College Civil Liberties Tour kicks off this Monday, October 15, in Seattle. Then, we’re off to Davis, California, and San Diego. Then on to Tucson. And then we wrap it up in Boulder. We are psyched! A supporter called me this week from California to ask whether the events were open to the public. (They are, and admission is free.) He asked whether the format entailed a debate between a libertarian, a liberal, and a conservative on the issues of civil liberties, the war on terrorism, and foreign policy. I explained that the program is not a debate. On the contrary, while the three of us on the panels naturally have our disagreements on various domestic issues and political or economic philosophy, we are on the same page when it comes to civil liberties, the war on terrorism, and foreign policy. All three of us — Glenn Greenwald (the liberal), Bruce Fein (the conservative), and I (the libertarian) — believe that ...

Atlas Shrugged, The Movie, Part 2

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Last night, I had the good fortune of attending the world premier of Atlas Shrugged, Part 2, in Washington, D.C. I say good fortune because it was an absolutely awesome film. It had everything — action, adventure, suspense, great acting, wonderful cinematography, a fantastic cliffhanger, and, most important, a clearly drawn battle between the looters and moochers of the welfare state versus the creators and producers of a free-market economy. When I was in law school during the early 1970s, I had to drop out for 3 months to attend infantry school at Ft. Benning, Georgia, as part of my Army Reserve commitment. I finished the school in October and, thus, had two months before I would return to law school in January. I took a job waiting tables in Dallas. Since I was a lunch and dinner waiter, I had my afternoons free. One afternoon I began watching an old, black-and-white movie on television. It was entitled The Fountainhead, starring ...