Jack Kingston: “Thousands, it does not give a time specific, a place specific, or a method specific. So what happens is we are guessing.…”

“Thousands, it does not give a time specific, a place specific, or a method specific. So what happens is we are guessing. Okay, there is going to be something that happens to the water system in New York. Do we close down all the drinking water that day? That is a general threat, and what is the practical way out of it? There are so many things, like the gentleman is saying, are like a bomb scare. The gentleman will know that the intelligence-gathering system is not perfect. I remember that we evacuated on September 11. When we were in the Longworth Building we were not told actually to evacuate. There was confusion. In fact, I personally went downstairs to the police and said, I have some employees here. Are we evacuating? And they said no, because at that time nobody knew what was going on. We went outside the United States office buildings, outside of the Capitol, and we were told that the Capitol had been hit. This was just the rumor, not by the police, but this was the rumor on the street, that the Capitol had been hit, the mall area had been hit, the State Department had been hit, and the Sears Tower.”