Congressional inquiry into 1995 Oklahoma City bombing fizzles.(Inside Track)

Alter nearly two years of "investigation," a congressional inquiry into the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City has delivered a frustratingly inconclusive report that raises more questions than it answers.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who chaired the inquest by the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, had repeatedly indicated that he would aggressively investigate evidence that convicted bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had been assisted by others. Specifically, he had targeted evidence pointing toward foreign involvement of Middle Easterners, a German national by the name of Andreas Strassmeir, and a group of Aryan bank robbers associated with a rural Oklahoma white separatist compound known as Elohim City.

The subcommittee report, entitled The Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There A Foreign Connection?, justifiably criticizes the federal investigation for failing to follow important leads and ignoring obvious suspects and evidence. Particularly, it criticizes the Department of Justice and the FBI for "calling off any further investigation into John Doe Two," and failure to "thoroughly investigate the potential involvement of Andreas Strassmeir and Hussain al-Hussaini, et al., despite evidence showing they may have played a role."

The report is critical not only of past obstruction during the Clinton administration, but ongoing stonewalling during the current Bush administration. Without naming ...