Theodore B Olson

One is the darling of the liberal legal elite, a Harvard constitutional law scholar who cut his teeth on high-pressure Washington politics 13 years ago by helping the Democrats derail the Supreme Court nomination of conservative Judge Robert H. Bork. The other is a California-bred Republican lawyer who has taken on often-unpopular clients, such as the Los Angeles police officers convicted in the Rodney G. King beating or a military college that fought in vain to keep out women. Laurence H.

Former Justice Department official Theodore B. Olson was "not always forthcoming," but gave "literally true" testimony before Congress in the 1983 investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency, an independent counsel said Monday in explaining why she decided against prosecuting him last summer.

Independent counsel Alexia Morrison announced Friday that she will not bring criminal charges against former U.S. Assistant Atty. Gen. Theodore B. Olson, who had been accused of misleading a congressional panel investigating the Superfund toxic waste cleanup program.