According to today’s Washington Post, terror suspect Sami al-Arian attended a group meeting at the White House in 2001 with President Bush’s senior adviser Karl Rove: Alleged Terrorist Met With Bush Adviser.

Al-Arian and his family also were photographed with Bush during a March 2000 campaign stop near Al-Arian’s suburban Tampa home.

And Bush sent a letter of apology to the suspect’s wife after the Secret Service ejected their son — who was then a congressional intern — from the White House complex during a separate June 2001 meeting of Muslims interested in the president’s faith-based initiative.

Al-Arian’s appearance at the White House came six days earlier, also as part of the administration’s outreach to Muslims, officials said.

Al-Arian was one of 160 members of the American Muslim Council who were briefed on Bush’s faith-based agenda and other issues by Rove and others in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is adjacent to the White House, on June 22, 2001. The visitors were in Washington for the group’s annual convention, and the group organized a delegation that accepted an invitation to visit the White House.

The Secret Service requires any potential visitor to the White House complex to submit a Social Security number and birth date to enable a security check.

Al-Arian told The Washington Post in an interview last year that being cleared into the White House gave him confidence that he was no longer suspected of being a terrorist supporter or sympathizer.