FBI Director Louis Freeh testified before Congress in May 1995 after the OKC bombing that the FBI was following a policy of helping known Middle eastern terrorists enter the US on students visas (taking advantage of the weaknesses in the INS known to the FBI) so the FBI could follow them for years in the US.
The FBI followed 9/11 airline hijacker Mohammed Atta in the US for years (told VP of flight school in OK in 1999 that FBI knew Atta was training for a terror mission using airliners) without arresting him and while knowing he was on an illegal terror mission and yet the FBI says they lost track of him just before the 9/11 attacks.
The FBI followed Ali Mohammed in the US and around the world from 1992 until 1998 while he worked for Bin Laden to set up AlQaeda terror cells in the US and helped in the 1993 WTC and Kenyan and Tanzanian bombings (may have helped in OKC bombing too). Yet former CIA counter terrorism official Larry Johnson told Congress last year that the FBI policy failed because the FBI also lost track of Ali Mohammed who the FBI knew all along was a double agent. These terrorist groups aided by the FBI for tracking purposes are now known to include Hamas, Abu Nidal and Alqaeda in the US.
The FBI policy of following known terrorists in the US for a long time as described by Freeh to Congress is still being practiced by the FBI and this is still known to Congressmen. A high level and veteran reporter and investigator for ABC at the Pentagon who knows Jesse Clear told me three weeks ago that he agreed with my assessment of the failed FBI policy of following ME terrorists for years when they commit terror acts like 9/11. The veteran ABC reporter called the FBI policy “stupid”.