The Republican Party Has Joined the MSM/FBI/OU Islamist Conspiracy

Bad news (link now dead) for professional hate-monger Michelle Malkin:

Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., said Tuesday he spoke to Salvador Hernandez, FBI special agent in charge of the bureau's Oklahoma office, about Joel H. Hinrichs III, an engineering student who died Oct. 1 when his bomb went off about 100 yards from the football stadium during the second quarter of OU's night game against Kansas State. The student was sitting on a campus bench.

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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,"' Cole said.

Cole said the agent also told him the FBI found nothing indicating Hinrichs attended the mosque.

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."

Cole also said the agent told him, "The roommate thing seems to be purely coincidental. ... No connection there whatsoever."

Cole said the agent "really went out of his way to establish that, I think, because he knows there's a legitimate concern and he doesn't want people who are innocent of any wrongdoing to be suspected of any wrongdoing."

He said the agent praised how the Islamic community cooperated with the FBI probe.

Nothing to see here. Move along. Malkin is sane and honest, and not at all consumed by hate. Stop insisting on those damned facts.

Representative Cole deserves great praise for helping to expose the Web of lies spread by Malkin, the Power Tools, Mark Tosspot, Inaccuracy in Media, et al. Mr. Cole apparently believes that he owes a duty to all his constituents, not just the white, right and intolerant.

Update (10/13): First link (to KOTV) is now dead.