I just went back and re-read it; how does it repudiate that McVeigh was trained or supported by terrorists?
Also, the FBI was warned in the months preceding the OKC blast that a terrorist attack was being planned for the heartland area and that "Lilly Whites" would be used and make it difficult to trace to Iraq.
No where does he say that he was in contact or in any way wanted to be compared to these people. Quite the contrary, he says he wants to be known as a "terrorist" on his own merits. That pretty well eliminates the connection as far as I'm concerned---in McVeigh's mind.
This makes me wonder about Carol Howe. She claimed to be an informant for the BATF in Eloihim City, and claimed she had passed information regarding a bomb plot, iirc, to her superiors, that the bombing was to involve the Murragh Building in OK City.
That information was either ignored or not acted on, and the BATF later denounced her, claiming she did not work for them.
This account was used to create an air of suspicion on the groups at Eloihim City, and by the transitive property of media hyperbole, that suspicion was levelled at any Christian, gun owner, self-proclaimed Constitutionalist, or person concerned about Waco, Ruby Ridge, or other Federal abuses of power.
At the time, there was a growing groundswell aimed at repealing the AWB, and that died as soon as anyone to the right of Hillary was roundly demonized in the press as being a domestic terrorist.
The anti-gun agitprop backfired to a point, as people realized the only firearm involved was not used (McVeigh's pistol), and that pursuing gun control was a non sequitur.
To get back to the point I wanted to make, though, it sure seems as if there was no shortage of warnings, at least to the two agencies (FBI and BATF) which should have acted on them.
The Gorelicking of data may have harmed the credibility of the target data, or caused laxity, but the tremendous political advantage gained by the Clinton Administration and the Democrats in general will always make me wonder if the failure to stop the bombing was orchestrated, or at least enabled from the highest level.
Motive, means, and opportunity were certainly present, and the later propensity of the same administration for 'wagging the dog' only adds credibility to thoughts which would have many reaching for the Reynolds Wrap.