It's instructive to go back to what it's been reported that Rep. Cole actually said:
Mr. Cole said he also asked the agent specifically whether the FBI found the student intended to get inside the stadium.
"He said, 'We may never know. We have no evidence of a plan to do that, but we also couldn't tell you definitively he didn't try to do it and was rebuffed. We just simply don't know,' " Mr. Cole said.
We have no evidence of a plan
We just simply don't know.
Quite a different thing than what subsequent pieces try to promote. The FBI could be dancing on the head of a pin here. Having no evidence of a plan does not at all preclude them having a boatload of other damning evidence.
More Cole comment: Mr. Cole said the agent also told him the FBI found nothing indicating Mr. Hinrichs attended a mosque near his apartment.
Mr. Cole said he asked the agent specifically whether jihadist material was found in the apartment, which was widely reported on Internet sites. "He told me there was absolutely none – nothing that would suggest links to terrorist groups."
Well, which is it? "absolutely none" or "nothing that would suggest links to terrorist groups"? Two entirely different things. And it would appear to me from the context that Cole himself knew that....first saying "absolutely none", then correcting himself with the followup.
The qualifier "known terrorist group," is a loophole you could drive a truck bomb through.
"The qualifier "known terrorist group," is a loophole you could drive a truck bomb through."
If it ain't Al Qeada it ain't terrorism. (sarc)
BTW I see from the news today that chechen non terrorist muslims have launched a series of coordinated attacks in southern Russia today.
Yeh it sort of implies that they know of terrorist groups in the Norman/OKC area, but maybe not all of them?